Eranga Wijewickrama, Muhammad Rafiqul Alam, Divya Bajpai, Smita Divyaveer, Arpana Iyengar, Vivek Kumar, Ahad Qayyum, Shankar Prasad Yadav, Manjusha Yadla, Silvia Arruebo, Aminu K Bello, Fergus J Caskey, Sandrine Damster, Jo-Ann Donner, Vivekanand Jha, David W Johnson, Adeera Levin, Charu Malik, Masaomi Nangaku, Ikechi G Okpechi, Marcello Tonelli, Feng Ye, Dibya Singh Shah, Narayan Prasad
The South Asia region is facing a high burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) with limited health resources and low expenditure on health care. In addition to the burden of CKD and kidney failure from traditional risk factors, CKD of unknown etiologies from India and Sri Lanka compounds the challenges of optimal management of CKD in the region. From the third edition of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA), we present the status of CKD burden, infrastructure, funding, resources, and health care personnel using the World Health Organization's building blocks for health systems in the ISN South Asia region...
April 2024: Kidney International Supplements