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Advocacy Action Wins New Research Funding

Following pressure from MPs and patient groups for more investment in diabetes research and care, Australia’s Minister for Health and Aged Care, The Hon Greg Hunt MP, announced that $38 million Australian Dollars ($27.5 U.S.) has been made available for two new medical research centres.

It is hoped they will produce rapid improvements in preventing, treating and curing diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and their complications.

The funding will be directed to research projects with the potential to transform diabetes and cardiovascular disease outcomes, and reduce the burden of these diseases on families and the community.

Advocacy Action: Can you work with patient groups and others to persuade your Government to set up something similar? If your Govenrment is already funding research in this way, please let PDGN know.