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Facilitating Well-Matched Living Kidney Donor Transplants. Protecting and Supporting Living Donors.

The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing the number of kidney transplants from living donors, improving donor-recipient matches for longer-lasting transplants, and offering protection and support to living kidney donors to make the kidney donation process safer, easier and more convenient.

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Information for Donors

What is Family Voucher Kidney Donation?

Michael Lollo, NKR Chief Strategy Officer

What if you donate a kidney, but then a family member needs a transplant? The Family Voucher Program lets you donate a kidney while also protecting your family members in the unlikely event one of them ever needs a kidney transplant.

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Advocating for Better Protections for Living Organ Donors

Senator John Albers

Since 2020, Georgia Senator John Albers has been dedicated to the cause of living kidney donation. Working with the American Kidney Foundation, he helped pass the Giving the Gift of Life Act in Georgia, which prohibits life insurers from discriminating against living organ donors by denying or canceling coverage and provides tax credits up to

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