Kidney Health Policy Resource Center

Women In Government’s Kidney Health Policy Resource Center aims to provide policymakers with comprehensive educational resources to help bring the growing problem of kidney disease, organ donation and kidney cancer to the forefront of state legislatures. Our resource center is designed to provide a centralized clearinghouse of information to help connect state legislators to data and other policy resources needed to advance these issues in their respective states.

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Oklahoma legislation seeks to implement written or oral notification and documented consent for transplant patient drugs.
- Click Here to read this legislation
- Click here to read the fiscal Impact Report
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacies has published an article on generic substitution of medications and its impact on transplant patients.
- Click here to read the article from their newsletter.

20 million Americans are affected with kidney disease and another 20 million are at increased risk.
African Americans, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans and seniors have increased risks for developing kidney disease.
Currently, there are 69,695 individuals on the national waiting list for a kidney donation
The need for organ donations is much higher among minority populations.
The American Cancer Society estimates that annually, about 32,000 new cases of kidney cancer are diagnosed and about 12,000 people die from kidney cancer.
Men are at a higher risk of developing kidney cancer than women.
Early detection can prevent the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure and also increase the changes of survival for individuals with kidney cancer.