Last year I wrote a blog post here in August about it being National Minority Donor Awareness Month and mentioned several of the inequities stemming from both medical realities and policies. The medical ones are caused by the ripple effect from minorities being more at risk for certain diseases: chronic kidney disease, for example, rates of kidney failure in black people are 3x as high as those in white people. The policy ones–more complicated–result from many of the inherent and pervasive inequities in our healthcare system.

I started and ended that post by saying that this important subject deserves to be on everyone’s radar every month, not just in August. So…when I realized it was now September and I hadn’t written a blog post about it yet, for a variety of unrelated reasons, I decided to make my point by choosing to spread the word in September–and beyond.

So please do read that post about minority donor awareness, including the links on where to get even more information, plus printed and social media materials. We’ll never succeed in substantially reducing those inequities if we don’t increase awareness equally substantially.

For related posts, resources, and information on The Insider’s Guide to Living Kidney Donation, be sure to explore the rest of my website.