FAQs

Need for living donor

  • Average wait for any O blood type 5-7 years

  • Over 100,000 people wait for a kidney each year

  • Only 17,000 of those receive a kidney each year

  • And more than 6,000 of those kidneys are from living donors!

Who can donate?

  • Healthy Adult age 18-65 (BMI <35)

  • No high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, hepatitis/HIV

  • No kidney, heart, liver or lung disease

Living Donor Kidney Benefits

  • Kidney can last longer, about 15-20 years (7-10 for deceased donor)

  • Better matches and outcomes

  • Avoid or shorten dialysis

APKD: Donor Protect Benefits

  • Lost wage Reimbursement

  • Travel Expenses

  • Dependent and Pet Care Expenses

  • Kidney Promise for the future

Learn More

Learn more about the donation process here:

Alliance for Paired Kidney Donations
National Kidney Foundation
University Maryland Medical Center
Christiana Care