Long-Term Dialysis Vascular Access in East Africa: Unique Challenges and Novel Solutions

1Department of Renal Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham, UK 2Africa Healthcare Network, Port Blair, Mauritius and Department of Medicine, John D. Dingell Veterans 3Affairs Medical Center & Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA aAddress for correspondence: Tushar J. Vachharajani, MD, Department of Medicine, John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, & Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ORCID - 0000-0002-4494-966X, Twitter @tvachh, [email protected], Jyoti Baharani, MD, ORCID - 0000-0003-4539-9927, Twitter @renalpages, [email protected], Lloyd Vincent, MD, ORCID - 0000-0002-0128-1831, Twitter @LloydVincent59, [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.