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Youth-focused care model transforms young kidney patients’ lives

Daily Maverick · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · · 1687 words · By Elna Schütz
Pediatric to Adult Medical Transition Healthcare Accessibility Specialized Medical Care
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The halls of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town are sometimes rather sombre, but on a Thursday afternoon the Nephrology Unit feels more like the chatty passageway of a high school.

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What happened

The halls of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town are sometimes rather sombre, but on a Thursday afternoon the Nephrology Unit feels more like the chatty passageway of a high school.

Why it matters

This is when the Kidney Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic (Kayac) is in session for patients between the ages of 13 and 25.

Common ground

They give blood and urine samples, see their medical teams, pick up medication, and go to a social support group with other teenagers – all in one go.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Pity: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-05-06-youth-focused-care-model-tran…

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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Appeal to Pity 70% confidence
Evoking sympathy to win support rather than using logical arguments.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing appeal to pity helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Professor Mignon McCulloch was inspired in 2002 to start an adolescent clinic for transplant patients – which eventually became Kayac”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “kidney transplant wait times in SA tend to take up to a decade”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim about transplant wait times in South Africa.
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Claim 3: “Clarissa Lawrence is a renal youth social worker focusing solely on the Groote Schuur Hospital and Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital clinics”
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Claim 4: “One meta-analysis found a mortality rate of about 95% in young patients with kidney failure in sub‐Saharan Africa who were not able to access blood dialysis”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a meta-analysis on mortality rates for young kidney failure patients in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Claim 5: “Clarissa Lawrence's role is financially and professionally supported by the Oxford Young Adult Clinic in the United Kingdom”
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Claim 6: “Kayac patients had an improved composite outcome survival rate of 97% after a year compared with 87% in the adult clinics”
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Claim 7: “the Kidney Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic (Kayac) is in session for patients between the ages of 13 and 25”
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While multiple web results mention the clinic (KAYAC) and its purpose of filling the gap between pediatric and adult care, none of the provided evidence snippets explicitly state the age range is '13 to 25'. The evidence confirms the clinic exists and serves adolescents/young adults, but the specific age bracket is not explicitly verified in the provided text.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gynecomastia (also spelled gynaecomastia) is the non-cancerous enlargement of one or both breasts in men due to the growth of breast tissue as a result of a hormone imbalance between estrogens and and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecomastia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure (ARF), is a sudden decrease in kidney function that develops within seven days, as shown by an increase in serum creatinine or a decrea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_kidney_injury
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cancer in adolescents and young adults is cancer which occurs in those between the ages of 15 and 39. This occurs in about 70,000 people a year in the United States—accounting for about 5 percent of c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_in_adolescents_and_youn…
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Claim 8: “Loss to follow-up at Kayac was less than half that for the same age group at the adult clinic (15% compared with 34%)”
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Claim 9: “Dr Zibya Barday is a consultant nephrologist at Groote Schuur Hospital and head of Kayac”
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Claim 10: “Around 10% of people are thought to be living with chronic kidney disease”
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A web search result explicitly attributes a statement to the National Kidney Foundation stating that 10 per cent of the population worldwide is affected by chronic kidney disease.
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web search NEUTRAL — Chronic kidney disease is a type of long-term kidney disease, defined by the sustained presence of abnormal kidney function and/or abnormal kidney structure. To meet the criteria for CKD, the abnormal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_kidney_disease
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web search NEUTRAL — Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive disease of growing prevalence, posing serious concerns for global public health. While the economic burden of CKD is substantial, data on the cost of CKD …
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10499937/
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web search NEUTRAL — According to National Kidney Foundation, 10 per cent of the population worldwide is affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), and millions die each year because they do not have access to affordable t…
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/health/genes-might-be-useful-…
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Claim 11: “Tarique Kenny was diagnosed with a genetic metabolic disease called Cystinosis when he was three”
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The web search results for this claim returned irrelevant information about Solitaire games and provided no information regarding Tarique Kenny's diagnosis.
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web search NEUTRAL — Play solitaire for free. No download or registration needed.
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web search NEUTRAL — This solitaire game has fairly good odds of winning if you can discard in such a way as to consistently free up piles. Bisley is a thoughtful solitaire that rewards skill and foresight. To win, play a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Play Solitaire online for free. No download required. Play full screen and try over 100 games like Klondike, Spider Solitaire, and FreeCell.
https://solitaired.com/
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Claim 12: “children are typically moved to the adult standard-of-care nephrology services at 13 years old in the public healthcare system”
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The provided evidence discusses transition of care generally (mentioning ages 18-21 in some contexts), but none of the sources confirm that the specific standard in the South African public healthcare system is 13 years old.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Africa is a linguistically diverse country and has twelve official languages: Ndebele, Sepedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and Engli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_South_Africa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_South_Africans
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Claim 13: “Professor Mignon McCulloch is the Head of Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplant at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital”
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Two independent UCT News reports and a hospital milestone report confirm Professor Mignon McCulloch's role as Head of the Clinical Unit of Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplantation at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.
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web search NEUTRAL — Professor McCulloch is the head of the Clinical Unit of Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplantation at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RCWMCH), and a senior lecturer at the U…
https://www.news.uct.ac.za/news/research-office/-article/202…
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web search NEUTRAL — Professor Mignon McCulloch, Head of the Clinical Unit of Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplantation, expressed her joy following the transplants. “We are absolutely delighted to have celebr…
https://www.westerncape.gov.za/health-wellness/article/kidne…
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web search NEUTRAL — Red Cross War Memorial children’s hospital celebrated its 300th kidney transplant on Friday, June 6. The children’s hospital first opened in 1956, though it performed its first renal transplant in 196…
https://southernmail.co.za/news/2025-06-11-red-cross-childre…
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Claim 14: “Kayac is located at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town”
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Multiple independent sources (allAfrica.com and a clinical outcomes report) explicitly place the KAYAC clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
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web search NEUTRAL — The halls of Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) in Cape Town are sometimes rather sombre, but on a Thursday afternoon the Nephrology Unit feels more like the chatty passageway of a high school. This is when…
https://allafrica.com/stories/202605060093.html
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 Psychiatry and Mental Health Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.KAYAC clinics provide an opportunity to implement early strategies to reduce the risk of progres…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12377949/
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web search NEUTRAL — Since KAYAC first opened its doors, Keenan Solomon and Tarique Kenny are two out of thousands of patients who have benefited from the clinic. Solomon’s and Kenny’s friendship blossomed as toddlers in …
https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2024-03-01-adolescent-ne…
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Claim 15: “A study by Barday, McCulloch and others assessed the impact of Kayac over five years”
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Claim 16: “Dr Marli Matthysen is the Groote Schuur Hospital Nephrology Unit’s Medical Officer”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 17: “Tarique Kenny received a kidney transplant when he was 14”
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The provided evidence for this claim does not mention Tarique Kenny receiving a transplant at age 14; the results are either general articles about kidney disease or unrelated Wikipedia entries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A constitutional referendum took place in Bangladesh on 12 February 2026, alongside the general election. Voters were asked about the provisions of the July Charter and related amendments to the Const…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Significant political, constitutional, and social changes in Bangladesh followed the July Uprising of 2024 and the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The revolution, which was initially spar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_July_Uprising
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe, (born 25 October 1957) is an English former police officer and was the head of London's Metropolitan Police as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2011…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Hogan-Howe
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Claim 18: “Cystinosis causes crystal formation affecting the kidneys and other organs”
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Wikipedia and the Cleveland Clinic both confirm that Cystinosis is a genetic condition causing the accumulation of cystine crystals in the kidneys and other organs.
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web search NEUTRAL — Cystinosis is a lysosomal storage disease characterized by the abnormal accumulation of free cystine, the oxidized dimer of the amino acid cysteine in lysosomes, eventually leading to intracellular cr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystinosis
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web search NEUTRAL — What is cystinosis? Cystinosis is a genetic condition in which an amino acid called cystine builds up within your cells. Too much cystine can damage your cells. It causes crystals to form that accumul…
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24657-cystino…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nephropathic cystinosis is a rare, inherited disorder causing cystine buildup. It can affect kidneys, eyes, and other organs, with treatments improving longevity.
https://www.kidney.org/kidney-topics/nephropathic-cystinosis
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.