Publications
Statements
The Board of Directors of CENCAM has issued a number of statements on recommendations and specific situations as needs have arisen, indexed here:
2018
Declaration of Solidarity
2016
Communication of the Board
2015
Statement of the CENCAM Board
2014
Board statement on interventions
Scientific Papers
The CENCAM board, led by Dr. Carl-Gustaf Elinder, regularly releases a summary document that provides an overview of published research related to CKDu. It is intended to help individuals interested in understanding the scope of what has been published on CKDu since its first description over two decades ago. The list is updated several times a year. Please note that this document may not include every published study related to CKDu.
Workshop Reports
Below are the reports from the First, Second, and Third International Workshops on Mesoamerican Nephropathy. The 2015 and 2019 reports are available in both English and Spanish.
Workshop 2024
The Fourth International Workshop on Chronic Kidney Diseases of Uncertain Etiology in Mesoamerica and Other Regions was held in Antigua City, Guatemala February 14-16, 2024, marked a significant collaborative effort among leading health organizations and 123 researchers from 18 countries. The meeting was hosted by The Consortium for the Epidemic of Nephropathy in Central America and Mexico (CENCAM) organized the workshop in partnership with the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic (SE-COMISCA), the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH), The Central American Program for Health, Work and Environment (SALTRA), and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). Workshop participants included specialists from diverse backgrounds including nephrology, epidemiology, occupational health, environmental health, toxicology, nephropathology, anthropology, and exposure assessment.
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English
1. Full report on IV Workshop on CKDu 2024 – ENGLISH
2. Excecutive Summary IV Workshop on CKDu 2024
Spanish:
1. Resumen Ejecutivo IV Taller ERCnt 2024 ESPAÑOL
2. Reporte completo del IV Taller ERCnt 2024- ESPAÑOL
Policy makers
Representatives of the Ministries of Health of the Member States of SICA belonging to the Technical Commission on Chronicles and Cancer (CTCC) and the Adhoc Group on Chronic Kidney Disease joined the workshop, who did not participate in the first two days. They heard a summary of the activities of the working groups and the recommendations presented by each thematic working group, along with a summary of PAHO recommendations for the prevention and care of CKDu.
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1. Reports by country IV Workshop on CKDu 2024
2. Reporte por países completo del IV Taller ERCnt 2024- ESPAÑOL
Workshop 2019
The Third International Workshop on Chronic Kidney Diseases of Uncertain/Non-traditional Etiology in Mesoamerica and Other Regions was held in San José, Costa Rica March 20-22, 2019, with the participation of 137 participants from 15 countries. The meeting was hosted by SALTRA-IRET of the National University and represented a collaboration between CENCAM, NIEHS, NIDDK, PAHO and SEARO. Workshop participants included specialists from diverse backgrounds including nephrology, epidemiology, occupational health, environmental health, toxicology, nephropathology, anthropology, and exposure assessment.
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2015 Workshop
Three years after the first workshop, the Central American Program for Work, Environment and Health (SALTRA) and the Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), organized the “Second International Workshop on the Epidemic of Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN)”, which was held in San José, Costa Rica, on November 18-20, 2015. A total of 75 experts from 18 countries discussed the evidence regarding possible causes of MeN, pathophysiologic pathways, and similarities and differences with other epidemics of CKDu in Sri Lanka and other parts of the world. The workshop concluded that Mesoamerican Nephropathy has a predominantly occupational component, which is demonstrated and discussed in the Technical Report.
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2012 Workshop
In order to provide an academic response to the search for the causes of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), the Central American Program of Health, Environment and Work (SALTRA) organized the “First International Workshop of Research on the Epidemic of Mesoamerican Nephropathy” in November 2012, with the participation of 52 researchers from 15 countries. The workshop resulted in three important products for scientific advancement in this topic:
- The publication of a Technical Report summarizing the state of art of the hypotheses about the causes and specific recommendations for the design of coordinated scientific research in the region.
- The signing of a Declaration of the participating researchers.
- The creation of a consortium of researchers to facilitate collaboration among scientists conducting research on the topic.
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Link Statement 2012