Kidney Community Advocacy Day 2017
Advocates from ASN and 21 other organizations representing the community of kidney care patients and professionals visited Capitol Hill Tuesday, September 19 to advocate on behalf of the 40 million Americans living with kidney diseases for increased funding of kidney research at the National Institutes of Health, and passage of the Living Donor Protection Act of 2017. Fact sheets on these messages, statistics about the impact of kidney diseases, and a list of participating organizations can be found below: