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Jazmin Evans, a student at Temple University, prepares her post-kidney transplant medications
at home in Philadelphia on Feb. 16, 2024. Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four
years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant
list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.

Jazmin Evans, a student at Temple University, prepares her post-kidney transplant medications
at home in Philadelphia on Feb. 16, 2024. Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four
years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant
list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.

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Biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant, but it's finally changing

Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.