January 23, 2023 article by Nada Hassanein "Widely used test kept Black people from getting kidney transplants sooner. Now that's changing."
HDU President Nichole Jefferson recently contributed to an article in USA TODAY about disparities in transplant eligibility in the Black community.
Excerpt:
"If I wasn't Black, my number would have been low enough for them to listen to me at that time," said Jefferson, president of Home Dialyzors United and a member of the Texas Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force and the American Society of Nephrology's Health Care Justice committee.