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Saving Young Lives (SYL) is leading the initiative in its mission to develop sustainable programs for treating acute kidney injury (AKI) in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.

Pediatric nephrologist Judith Aujo explains that through her meeting with Prof. Hassan Abu Aisha, one of the pioneers of the Sudanese PD program, she received valuable advice on making this program work and how he encouraged the Ugandan and Sudan teams to maintain collaboration, and even consider joint research projects.

Explaining the importance of this course, she believes: “As a pediatrician with an interest in pediatric nephrology, this training was an eye opener on how much one needs to study in this field.”

Peter Ntege adds: “Uganda’s health system is deficient of doctors, especially specialists. SYL will pull more doctors into nephrology, not only improving the doctor’s skills and the health system, which currently counts five adult nephrologists and no pediatric nephrologists.”

This course set out to cover the basic PD principles, cases with AKI and catheter insertion. Judith Aujo, Peter Ntege, Margaret Idumira and Milly Nakazzi from the Kisenyi Health Center and Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital in Uganda spent two months at the Sudanese center to learn more from the local experts about their experiences of setting up a PD program.

Saving Young Lives brings together the expertise of ISN, International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA), the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and the Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation (SKCF).

Find out more about the Saving Young Lives (SYL) initiative, click here.