A Vese Világnapját 2020. március 12-én tartják világszerte. Fontosnak tartjuk és kérjük a hazai nephrologiai központokat, hogy kezdjenek hozzá a regionális lakossági rendezvények szervezéséhez és a sajtókommunikáció tervezéséhez. Kérjük az egyes nephrologiai központokat, hogy a Vese Világnap regionális programját (ideje, helye, tervezett programja) küldjék el a Nemzeti Vese Program programszervezőjének (Böcskei Virág nemzetiveseprogram@gmail.com) és a Magyar Nephrologiai Társaság főtitkárának (Dr. Kárpáti István istvan.karpati@nephrologia.hu). Az információkat közzétesszük a Magyar Nephrologiai Társaság és a Nemzeti Vese Program honlapján.Ugyancsak közzétesszük az egyes események összefoglalóit, szakmai anyagait és sajtómegjelenéseit amennyiben azokat időben megkapjuk.

World Kidney Day 2020 is only 3 weeks away. In order to make World Kidney Day (WKD) a success on March 12 and promote the idea of “Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere – from Prevention to Detection and Equitable Access to Care”, we need your championship for the cause as our official WKD representative at local level. We need you!
As World Kidney Day is approaching, we would appreciate your support.
- Participate in the #MyGr8Rule challenge and encourage colleagues, friends and family to do the same by February 29, 2020.
- Using our advocacy guide, identify the most pressing policy issues involving kidney disease in your country and address your asks and queries to the key advocacy targets (usually policy makers, Heads of Governments, Ministers of Health, Health and policy officers, etc.). You can either engage through communicating directly (letter, email or even telephone) with the relevant stakeholders or indirectly through your informal and formal networks.
- Using our general toolkit and event guide, encourage your institution, colleagues, kidney foundations, Nephrology Societies and patients’ associations, to organize awareness activities in occasion for WKD and to keep the WKD team informed of such activities. Please make sure you add WKD events to the world map (http://www.worldkidneyday.org/2020-campaign/worldwide-events/ ) - Disseminate our materials and reach out to as many newspaper, magazines, radio and TV channels you can.

We’ve been busy!
Our social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn) have been continuously active, posting suggestions for prevention measures, motivational quotes, healthy lifestyle tips and general fun facts on kidneys. We have published several blog-posts celebrating people whose course of life was impacted by kidney disease. On February 8, 2020 we kicked off the #MyGr8Rule challenge encouraging our followers to complete one or more of the 8 golden rules of keeping kidneys healthy and post a picture showing them in action.
The latest editions of our general campaign toolkit and advocacy toolkit are available: the former provides a detailed outline of our 2020 theme and tips on how to get involved in the campaign, plus some twitter posts and hashtag ideas to share; the latter is packed full with information, resources and practical guidance for champions and local organizations that wish to engage in advocacy for better kidney health and kidney care.
The World Kidney Day updated event guide will provide you with inspiration for your activities, tips on planning and kicking-off your World Kidney Day event and further guidance on how to use the World Kidney Day campaign resources.
As every year, WKD released a scientific editorial, which will be published in more than 50 scientific journals worldwide.
Chronic kidney disease is likely to increase in future and, if policy inaction is not reversed now, CKD will be the 5th leading cause of Years of Life Lost in 2040. Yet, together we will be stronger in raising awareness of the importance of the preventive measures and the pressing urgency pertaining to the need for increased education of populations, patients, practitioners and policy makers in effective kidney disease prevention.