First Nations peoples in Australia face systemic inequities in access to kidney transplantation. The National Indigenous Kidney Transplant Taskforce was established to address these. It has provided support to clinicians to implement and evaluate innovative practices and developed strategies to address biases in the structures and models of care that create barriers to wait-listing.
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K.J.O. is a Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri woman; M.D. is a Paakantyi woman; J.T.H. is a Torres Strait Islander woman (Wagadagam). S.P.M. and K.C. are non-Indigenous. The National Indigenous Kidney Transplant Taskforce was funded by a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health to the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. It was hosted by the South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute. J.T.H. holds an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant (GNT 1174758), which supported her NHMRC leadership role.
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McDonald, S.P., Cundale, K., Owen, K.J. et al. Equitable access to kidney transplants for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. Nat Rev Nephrol 19, 751–752 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-023-00780-3
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