Welcome Message 2025
Welcome Message 2025 – AFRAN President Mohamed Hany Hafez
Dear Professors and Esteemed AFRAN Members and Colleagues,
Happy new year 2025 for all of you, hoping this year will bring peace and prosperity for AFRICA. I would like to welcome you to AFRAN website in 2025. Thanking a lot the website chair and committee members.
Since 1987 The principal purpose of African association of nephrology, the leading Society, is to promote the development and to establish the scientific identity of African nephrology.
It has organized, supported and sponsored many activities through its committees for example:
-Promotion of Peritoneal Dialysis by Onsite Practice and Collaboration with International Societies.
-Supporting existing Hemodialysis programs and spreading these to accommodate new modalities.
-Encouraging Kidney transplantation Programs involving both living and Cadaveric donation. Nowadays only 15 African countries have regulating laws and active programs, and this number should increase.
-Producing African Journal of Nephrology on a regular basis to publish local research in Nephrology; its Impact factor has increased and also recognized by French academia.
-Involving Young Nephrologists with their special enthusiasm to cross the borders.
-Improvement of nephrology education in Africa through regular Webinars almost every week.
-Establishment of relevant registries: Idea proposed at 2013 AFRAN meeting in Accra and formally launched at WCN in Cape Town in 2015, but still many countries are deficient in registries.
-Promotion of prevention strategies for kidney disease in Africa.
-Addressing Acute Nephrology Care including Interventional Modalities, and disaster management.
-Promotion of research specifically addressing nephrological problems in Africa, revealing some unique genetic backgrounds like APOL1, and Endemic Infections like malaria, hepatitis and HIV causing Kidney injury.
-Promoting Clinical Nephrology practice in the continent.
AFRAN CONGRESSES
-Since the first Congress 1987 in Cairo, Egypt, 17 congresses were held a regular basis; alternating an African English speaking country with an African French speaking Countries.
I invite all of you to attend the 18th congress of AFRAN, this is going to take place in Tunisia from 15 to 18 April 2025 This congress will start by multiple.
Pre-congress workshops organized By Multiple Endorsing international bodies including the French Society of
Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation (SFNDT), Mayo Clinic USA group, Middle East Society of Transplantation (MESOT), Arab Society of Nephrology and transplantation (ASNRT), Declaration of Istanbul Custodian group (DICG), The Transplant Society (TTS). These transplantation sessions complement activities of our transplant committee.
In the following three days of the congress international society of Nephrology (ISN) will be present by plenary sessions and workshops. KDIGO will stress on APOL1 Nephropathies.
Peritoneal dialysis with International Society of Peritoneal (ISPD), NephroPediatrics with International Paediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA), and Reproductive health with
European Renal Association (ERA) will also be in focus.
Green Nephrology, Histopathology, Renal replacement with dialysis advances, Onconephrology, Nephrolithiais, Diabetic kidney Disease, geriatric nephrology will be also discussed among other Hot new topics.
This congress will give plenty spaces for free communications and young nephrologists initiatives.
All AFRAN Committees Reports and projects for the coming years will be discussed.
At present, with the Beauty of Group Work, AFRAN continues to build a fruitful future.
The best is expected to come with our Cooperation and Enthusiasm.
Warmest regards,
Mohamed Hany Hafez
AFRAN president