Diabetes Australia has won the Best Patient Campaign category at the 2022 Australian Patient Association Awards in Melbourne on August 18.
The winning entry, “Heads Up on Diabetes,” was launched during National Diabetes Week in 2020. As previously reported at the launch it was a three-year campaign designed to highlight the daily mental health challenges people living with diabetes face every day.
The “Heads Up on Diabetes” campaign’s goals were to raise awareness of diabetes, increase knowledge of where to get help, call for an end of diabetes-related stigma and discrimination, and raise awareness of the importance of mental healthcare as part of regular diabetes care.