About Waitlist Zero

Goals

Dramatically increase living donation by:

• Educating the public about the safety, convenience, and life-saving potential of living kidney donation.
• Ensuring that excellent transplant education is guaranteed to all medically eligible patients and their families.
• Piloting innovative practices and replicating those that have the most promise for saving more lives.
• Launching a Living Donation Breakthrough Collaborative to dramatically increase living donation by disseminating transplant center best practices.
• Mobilizing kidney donors as advocates for themselves and their loved ones.
• Organizing the community of those interested in increasing transplantation to effectively advocate for better transplant policy.
• Passing comprehensive state and federal legislation to achieve our vision of transplant support.

Principles

Commitment to Kidney Patients and Their Families

• Saving lives should be the highest goal of transplant policy; any policy that interferes with that must meet a high burden of proof.
• Ending the wait list is morally urgent. Every day that passes without progress is unacceptable.

Fairness to Donors

• No donor should expect to be worse off for having donated.
• Donors should be proud to have donated, and society should honor the compassion all donors share.

Donor Equality

• Kidney donation should not be more of a burden on the poor than the rich.
• Kidney donors should be a diverse group drawn from all segments of society.

Patient Equality

• Patients should have equal access to transplantation regardless of their wealth or status.
• Patients should receive consistent and comprehensive education about all treatment option and the outcomes for each.
• Patients seeking a transplant should not feel they are a burden to their loved ones.