TAMPA, Fla. June 30, 2004 – On July 1, AAKP will unveil a newly designed Web site. Located at www.aakp.org, the new Web site will offer visitors all the same benefits of the previous Web site, as well as new information and features, in an easily navigated and visually pleasing format. 

“We at AAKP are extremely excited to launch the new site. Our hopes are to provide kidney patients and their family members with an educational resource of the most current news and issues in kidney disease,” said AAKP Executive Director Kris Robinson.

Benefits of AAKP’s Web site include: aakpRENALIFE and Kidney Beginnings: The Magazine articles; newsletters Kidney Beginnings: The Electronic Newsletter, Renal Flash and Kidney Transplant Today; numerous educational brochures; programs and events, including AAKP’s Annual Convention; Washington Update; local chapter information; press releases; AAKP’s history, board members and staff; membership information and much more. Many of AAKP’s publications are available in their entirety on the Web site. To view the newly designed Web site, please click here. .

AAKP is the voluntary, patient organization, which for 35 years, has been dedicated to improving the lives of fellow kidney patients and their families by helping them deal with the physical, emotional and social impact of kidney disease. The programs offered by AAKP inform and inspire patients and their families to better understand their condition, adjust more readily to their circumstances and assume more normal, productive lives in their communities.