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The Take: Is US healthcare still using racist medical practices?

Jazmin Evans, a student at Temple University, prepares her post-kidney transplant medications at home in Philadelphia on February 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 [Tassanee Vejpongsa/AP Photo]

When a new kidney could save your life, every minute counts. When Jazmin Evans discovered she could have received a kidney four years earlier, she was shocked. When she found out the delay was due to a racially biased testing process, she tried to warn others.

This is a story from the archives. This originally aired on December 19, 2024. None of the dates, titles or other references from that time has been changed.

In this episode:

Jazmin Evans, kidney transplant patient, PhD Student of Africology at Temple University

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Manahil Naveed and Amy Walters, with Veronique Eshaya, Shraddha Joshi, and our host Malika Bilal. It was edited by Alexandra Locke.

The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Chloe K Li, David Enders, Duha Mosaad, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed, Marcos Bartolome, Sari el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, and Tamara Khandaker.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.