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Living Kidney Donation Web Sites

Here are additional web sites related to living kidney donation.

General Information on Living Kidney Donation

• Living donation resources from UNOS.

• National Kidney Foundation in the US—Answers to questions about living donation. A great Q&A. The NKF also has a living donor message board which you can access here.

• National Living Donor Assistance Center--a US government funded program that provides financial assistance to certain living donors.

• The Australian Government also published these guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation (PDF file).

• Information on living donation from the UK-based National Kidney Federation.

• The Transplant Living home page on living donation. Transplant Living is the online educational project of the US-based United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit organization that administers the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, the system that gathers and allocated organs for transplants in the US.

• Questions and answers on living donation from the UK's National Health Service.

• Living donor Q&A from the California Pacific Medical Center.

• A PDF file, "Kidney Donation by Live Donors," published by the NSW Health (New South Wales, Australia).

• An Australian site with PDF files on living donation on the middle of the web page.

• Living Donor 101, notable for its extensive information on living donor medical research.

• Living Organ Donor Advocate Program home page.

• Living Kidney Donors Alliance home page.

• Watch streaming video of a living kidney transplant. You can also go to YouTube and seach "living kidney donor" for to view several videos.

• Transplant Ethics web site: "to promote the integrity of transplant medicine, and the welfare of living donors and organ recipients."

• For Donors Only message board provided by The Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Living Donor Registries, Paired Exchange and "Swap" Programs

• Washington Regional Living Kidney Donor Program

• Alliance for Paired Donation web site.

• Web site for the North American Paired Donation Network.

• Altruistic Kidney Donor Program at Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, RI).

• The National Kidney Registry, an online registry of potential living donors.

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