The World Health Organisation held an international summit in April 2021 at which a Global Compact, focussing on setting global coverage targets for diabetes care was launched.
A key aim of the Global Diabetes Compact was to unite key stakeholders from the public and private sectors, and, critically, people who live with diabetes, around a common agenda, to generate new momentum and co-create solutions.
A “global price tag” was going to quantify the costs and benefits of meeting these new targets. It was also calling on governments to include diabetes prevention and treatment into primary health care and as part of universal health coverage packages.
At the launch Dr Bente Mikkelsen, then Director of the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases at WHO said: “The “all hands-on deck” approach to the COVID-19 response is showing us what can be achieved when different sectors work together to find solutions to an urgent public health problem.
Has it Made a Difference?
The Compact, see the link below, will only make a difference if we help to make it work and that means holding governments to account to deliver its aims.
Advocacy Action: Your country may have signed up to the Compact. If it did can you ask your representatives whether their Government is reaching its targets and how it plans to reach the targets if it isn’t?
https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/country-profiles/diabetes/narrative—who-global-diabetes-compact—7-april-2021-at-1800-(final).pdf
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/world-diabetes-day/global-diabetes-compact-final.pdf