COVID-19

Webinar Presents Key Elements of ISN Member Campaigns Leading to Dialysis Patient Prioritisation in National Covid-19 Vaccination Programs

As part of ISN’s global campaign to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations for the three million patients worldwide currently undergoing dialysis, the ISN held the webinar, “Prioritization of Dialysis Patients in National Covid-19 Vaccination Programs - Lessons Learned from Successful Campaigns,” on March 9, 2021. The webinar highlighted methods and results from campaigns carried out in Italy,...

March 29, 2021Advocacy, COVID-19, NewsRead more...

Global Kidney Organizations Urge Governments to Prioritize Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccine to Dialysis Patients.

The presidents of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA), and the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) have urged the immediate prioritization of COVID-vaccine distribution to people undergoing dialysis treatment in dialysis units worldwide. Kidney failure patients cannot live without dialysis and are more at risk of...

March 22, 2021Advocacy, COVID-19, NewsRead more...

Register COVID-19 cases on the CORONATION Registry

The CORONATION registry continues to recruit worldwide. Any COVID-19 case is eligible. We are particularly keen to collect information on patients with chronic kidney disease, kidney transplants, or those receiving dialysis. Our web-portal is simple to use: You can quickly register a case and then come back up to 12 months later to fill in...

March 22, 2021Advocacy, COVID-19, NewsRead more...

ISN Calls for Urgent Prioritization of Dialysis Patients in COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

The ISN has written to the WHO requesting its support in convincing policymakers worldwide to immediately prioritize the vaccination of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis. The request has been made in light of the recent ISN paper published in Kidney International, “The urgent need to vaccinate dialysis patients against SARS-CoV-2: A...

February 15, 2021Advocacy, COVID-19, NewsRead more...

CORONATION: Upload Bulk Data to Register Patients Affected by COVID-19 on the Global COVID Registry

CORONATION, developed by the ISN in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, is the Coronavirus global observational registry, a data entry portal accessible to nephrologists worldwide to collect anonymous data on individual people with kidney disease and the COVID-19 infection. The initiative was set up in response to the growing need to gather data to...

December 7, 2020Advocacy, COVID-19, NewsRead more...