Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.
As upsetting as that notification was, it also was part of an unprecedented move to mitigate the racial inequity. Evans is among more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates so far given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.'I remember just reading that letter over and over again,' said Evans, 29, of Philadelphia, who shared the notice in a TikTok video to educate other patients.
The American Thoracic Society has urged replacing race-based lung function evaluation.The kidney saga is unique because of the effort to remedy a past wrong.'Lots of time when we see health inequities, we just assume there's nothing we can do about it,' Morse said. 'We can make changes to restore faith in the health system and to actually address the unfair and avoidable outcomes that Black people and other people of color face.
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