Table 1.
Recognition of CKD as a health care priority by government and presence of advocacy groups across countries
| Region | CKD |
AKI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of responding countries | Health care priority | Availability of an advocacy group | Number of responding countries | Availability of an advocacy group | |
| Overall | 116 | 42 (36) | 49 (42) | 112 | 21 (19) |
| ISN region | |||||
| Africa | 30 | 14 (47) | 16 (53) | 28 | 9 (32) |
| Eastern and Central Europe | 16 | 2 (13) | 3 (19) | 16 | 1 (6) |
| LAC | 16 | 5 (31) | 7 (44) | 15 | 3 (20) |
| Middle East | 13 | 6 (46) | 6 (46) | 13 | 1 (8) |
| NIS and Russia | 6 | 3 (50) | 3 (50) | 6 | 2 (33) |
| North America | 2 | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 1 | 0 (0) |
| North and East Asia | 6 | 2 (33) | 0 (0) | 6 | 0 (0) |
| OSEA | 13 | 4 (31) | 8 (62) | 13 | 3 (23) |
| South Asia | 5 | 3 (60) | 1 (20) | 5 | 1 (20) |
| Western Europe | 9 | 3 (33) | 3 (33) | 9 | 1 (11) |
| World Bank Income Group | |||||
| Low income | 17 | 9 (53) | 9 (53) | 16 | 4 (25) |
| Lower middle income | 31 | 16 (52) | 15 (48) | 30 | 10 (33) |
| Upper middle income | 30 | 6 (20) | 11 (37) | 29 | 5 (17) |
| High income | 38 | 11 (29) | 14 (37) | 37 | 2 (5) |
AKI, acute kidney injury; CKD, chronic kidney disease; ISN, International Society of Nephrology; LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean; NIS, Newly Independent States (of the former Soviet Union); OSEA, Oceania and Southeast Asia. Values are n or n (%).