Your host, DJ Ace, explores how culture, identity and misinformation influence attitudes towards kidney health and living donation across different communities. Through conversations with donors, recipients and clinicians, the episode examines how misunderstandings around diet, medical processes and ‘who can donate’ can shape decisions and sometimes create fear or mistrust.
We hear how lived experience, honest communication and culturally aware conversations can help challenge myths and foster more informed discussions about donation.
The episode also reflects on the emotional reality of living with kidney disease, from long-term dialysis to waiting for a transplant, and on what it means to navigate those choices while still holding on to life, hope and resilience.
Kidney Kinship continues to open up honest conversations around living donation in Black, South Asian and mixed heritage communities, helping people feel informed, supported and stronger together for better health and communities.
Kidney Kinship is a podcast making us stronger together for better health and communities. For more information, visit guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/living-donor.
This series was produced by Unedited in partnership with the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and supported by the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.
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