Organ transplantation in Tunisia.

Kidney transplants were first performed in Tunisia in 1986, and transplants soon extended to other organs including the heart, liver, and pancreas. Live-related donor and deceased-donor kidney transplants were both began in the summer of 1986. An organ procurement and transplant law was passed in March 1991, and the National Centre for Advancement of Organ Transplantation was created in 1995.

ESRD management in Africa during the last decade.

Aims: This study was initiated under the auspices of the African Association of Nephrology to evaluate end-stage renal disease (ESRD) development by using data collected in 3 successive surveys performed during the last decade.

Materials And Methods: Questionnaires were sent in 2004, 2006, and 2012 to national renal societies and to leading nephrologists. Data were also collected from dialysis supply companies, personal communication, and by using research on Medline, Pubmed, etc.

Survival is not enough.

Survival is not enough is a yearly international event started in 2007 in Naples, Italy, in the week of the World Kidney Day to discuss the needs of renal patients and the quality of life of a category of patients living a machine-dependent life. Renal patients and their associations, philosophers, economists, nephrologists, and health care managers are enrolled to discuss about the possibility to grant the best cures and care without reducing the quality and the quantity of the services the patients need. Various quests have arisen for (1) a new cadre of managers capable of keeping health accounts in balance without cutting expenditure but by reducing waste of resources, (2) the promotion of prevention as the only measure capable of reducing costs in the long run, and (3) the promotion of clinical and translational research.