{"id":72,"date":"2012-01-11T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-01-11T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:01:01","slug":"give-a-kidney-promoting-altruistic-donation-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/2012\/01\/11\/give-a-kidney-promoting-altruistic-donation-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Give a Kidney &#8211; promoting altruistic donation in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveakidney.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/giveakidney.jpg\" alt=\"Give a kidney logo\" title=\"Give a kidney logo\" width=\"185\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveakidney.org\" title=\"Give a kidney\">Give a Kidney \u2013 One\u2019s Enough<\/a> is a charity that aims to raise awareness of altruistic living kidney donation.  Altruistic donation is the giving of a kidney, from a living person, to a stranger who has kidney failure.  The charity also aims to publicise why more living kidney donors are needed and to support people who are considering this type of donation.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with kidney failure have the option of dialysis or transplantation when both their kidneys fail. A kidney transplant can provide patients with freedom from regular dialysis, a better quality of life and longer life expectancy. Unfortunately, very few patients have someone who can give them a kidney, and on average most patients have to wait on dialysis for two to three years before a kidney becomes available on the national deceased donor transplant waiting list.<\/p>\n<p>Although the UK performs more than 2500 kidney transplantations a year, there are over 7000 people waiting for a kidney transplant, of whom 300 die each year.  Initiatives like this to promote living donation &#8211; both altruistic and directed, aim to improve the quality of organ donation and reduce this wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give a Kidney \u2013 One\u2019s Enough is a charity that aims to raise awareness of altruistic living kidney donation. Altruistic donation is the giving of a kidney, from a living person, to a stranger who has kidney failure. The charity also aims to publicise why more living kidney donors are needed and to support people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[186,193,239],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","tag-awareness","tag-charity-2","tag-kidney-transplantation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}