title: Eliminating treatable deaths due to acute kidney injury in resource-poor settings.
abstract: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is imposing a severe burden of morbidity and mortality both in developed and developing countries. Also AKI has a major economic impact on healthcare expenditure. This is particularly so in poor countries where AKI especially impacts young productive people, imposing severe penury upon their families. The mission is to lessen the high burden in terms of death consequent to this disorder in low-resource regions, which in many cases is preventable and treatable with simple measures. The International Society of Nephrology has launched a long-term program, called "0 by 25", which advocates that zero people should die of untreated AKI in the poorest part of Africa, Asia, and Latin America by 2025. This paper illustrates how the project will be developed.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy; Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases "Aldo e Cele Daccò", IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Famacologiche Mario Negri, Ranica, Bergamo, Italy.
authors.forename: Arrigo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schieppati
authors.forename: Norberto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Perico
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Remuzzi
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends; D003906:Developing Countries; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D017582:Renal Replacement Therapy / Q000592:standards*