The guide library
Each guide below is a complete, self-contained page, and together they build up to a working understanding of kidney disease in India. Start with the overview if you are new to the topic; the dialysis and transplant guides stand on their own.
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Kidney disease in India: the plain-language overview
The pillar guide. What the kidneys do, what chronic kidney disease is, how it is found, and what the most common causes are — written for a lay reader.
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Dialysis in India: what happens, and what families should know
How haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis work, when each is used, and what the treatment journey in India tends to look like.
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Kidney transplant in India: the legal and care pathway
What THOTA means for living and deceased donation, how families approach the transplant decision, and the honest limits of what a website can tell you.
Read this guideReading companion. The guides pair with the statistics page (the numbers behind the topics) and the directory (where to go next). No guide replaces talking to a clinician.