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Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency International Alliance Enhancing the quality of life for patients with PK deficiency and their families by providing awareness expanding education and promoting advocacy. Featuring Bridging the PK Deficiency Community We are proud to announce the merger of the two primary nonprofits serving the PK deficiency community Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency Foundation and Thrive with Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency Organization to one combined organization entitled Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency International Alliance PKDIA. Pyruvate kinase deficiency is an ultrarare genetic hemolytic anemia that affects people and families of all ethnicities from around the world. Knowing that families living with PKD have contacted us from Tibet to Australia Brazil to Canada we are excited to extend our work internationally with hopes of finding countryspecific PKD ambassadors.