CKD in Disadvantaged Populations Autores
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Correspondência para: Guillermo Garcia-Garcia. World Kidney Day, International Society of Nephrology. Rues de Fabriques 1B, 1000, Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: info@worldkidneyday. org *Members of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee are: Philip Kam Tao Li, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, William G. Couser, Timur Erk, Elena Zakharova, Luca Segantini, Paul Shay, Miguel C. Riella, Charlotte Osafo, Sophie Dupuis, Charles Kernahan. “Of all of the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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