Published Papers
CKDu: Strategies for saving lives now
Investigators
Ilana Weiss
Journal
MEDICC Review
Published date:
1 Apr 2014
Excerpt
La Isla Foundation (LIF) is a nongovernmental organization based in Nicaragua that works at the intersection of health and human rights. LIF was created to address the fatal epidemic of chronic kidney disease of nontraditional causes (CKDu) in the context of its impact on sugarcane workers in Central America. In the town of Chichigalpa, the epicenter of the Nicaraguan epidemic, mortality from CKDu has more than doubled in the last […]