AAKP has teamed up with Baxter Healthcare to promote the Take 2 Tell 5 campaign, which targets African Americans  with kidney disease and those at risk of developing kidney failure, to take two minutes to get tested for the disease and tell five friends and loved ones to also get tested.

Targeted cities include Atlanta, Ga., Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio and New York City. Anyone who would like to learn more about kidney disease and its related complications can visit www.aakp.org/Take2Tell5. Posters of the Take 2 Tell 5 campaign can also be downloaded from the Web site. 

This article originally appeared in the May 2008 issue of AAKP Diet Tips & Bits.