ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2013
Nephrology in Africa--not yet uhuru.
Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed.
- Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Annals of global health · 2026Review
- Addressing social responsibility of kidney healthcare facilities in Africa.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Global kidney health priorities-perspectives from the ISN-GKHA.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2024Review
- Pediatric chronic kidney disease mortality in Brazil-A time trend analysis.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Peritoneal Dialysis for Potential Kidney Transplant Recipients: Pride or Prejudice?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Acute Kidney Injury in Sub-Saharan African Adults: A Review of the Current Literature.International journal of nephrology · 2022Review
- International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas: structures, organization, and services for the management of kidney failure in Africa.Kidney international supplements · 2021Review
- Challenges of access to kidney care for children in low-resource settings.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2021Review
- A Systematic Review of Complications Associated With Percutaneous Native Kidney Biopsies in Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Kidney international reports · 2021Article
- The current and future landscape of dialysis.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2020Review
- Risk factors for development of acute kidney injury in hospitalised adults in Zimbabwe.PloS one · 2020Observational
- Current Management Strategies of Chronic Kidney Disease in Resource-Limited Countries.International journal of nephrology and renovascular disease · 2020Review
- Risk factors and outcomes of acute kidney injury in South African critically ill adults: a prospective cohort study.BMC nephrology · 2019Observational
- A Cost Analysis of Haemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis for the Management of End-Stage Renal Failure At an Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2019Article
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- Nephrology in South Africa: Not YetKidney diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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- The Global Epidemiology of Diabetes and Kidney Disease.Advances in chronic kidney disease · 2018Review
- Global capacity for clinical research in nephrology: a survey by the International Society of Nephrology.Kidney international supplements · 2018Review
- Acute Kidney Injury Recognition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Kidney international reports · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Nephrology is a 'Cinderella speciality', a disregarded area of health care, in Africa. Other health issues have relegated the treatment of kidney diseases to a low priority status, and the cost of treating the more common and widespread communicable diseases, financial mismanagement and corruption in many countries has sounded the death knell for expensive therapies such as dialysis. The communicable diseases that have devastated the health systems around Africa are tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Until recently, very little information was available on the impact of HIV on acute and chronic dialysis admissions. Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) in most of Africa are seldom treated because of great distances to travel, lack of expertise, poverty and poor sustainable funding for health matters. An acute peritoneal dialysis (PD) programme has now been initiated in Tanzania but the sustainability of this project will be tested in the future. The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) has developed a training programme for nephrologists from developing countries, which may now be bearing fruit. A report from the sub-Saharan Africa region shows that the numbers of patients on dialysis and those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has increased significantly. Other ISN-sponsored programmes such as Continuing Medical Education activities for physicians and community screening projects have had far-reaching positive effects. Government funding for a dialysis programme is well established in South Africa, but this funding is limited so that the numbers accepted for public dialysis are restricted. Consequently in the Western Cape province of South Africa, a 'category system' has been formulated to attempt to cope with this unacceptable and restrictive ruling.
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