Sugar Tax Experience
PDGN Vice-President and member of the Moroccan House of Representatives, Dr Mostafa Brahimi, attended the Regional Expert Meeting on Policy Action for Healthy Diets in Dubai, where he shared his country’s experience of soda (SSB) taxes. As a member of the Moroccan Obesity Task Force, he explained how Morocco implemented a sugar tax and the […]
More News From Around the Globe: Moroccan Success
PDGN Vice-President and Moroccan MP, Dr Mostafa Brahimi reports on his advocacy success with the draft finance law 2023. “After the introduction of the tax on sugary drinks in 2018 and 2019, and thanks to my repetitive interventions and amendments to the 2019, 2020 and 2021 finance laws, we organized a study day between parliament, […]
More News from Around the World: Role of Taxation in Preventing Obesity – Moroccan Summit
PDGN Vice-President and Moroccan MP, Dr Mostafa Brahimi, reports that a summit on the role of taxation in preventing obesity was held in the Moroccan Parliament. The summit involved parliamentarians, agri-food industry representatives, such as biscuits, sugar drinks and dairy products, together with academics and the President of the of the International Diabetes Federation Middle-East […]
Amendments to Moroccan Finance Bill
PDGN Vice-President, Senator Dr Mustafa Brahimi, is proposing a number of amendments to the 2022 health budget with ideas to help prevent diabetes and improve treatment for those with the condition. Senator Brahimi is amending the country’s Finance Bill as it makes its way towards a final vote by the Commission this month. Brahimi want’s […]
Morocco – New Refundable Medications
The Moroccan National Agency of Health Insurance (ANAM) and the Ministry of Health have achieved a new improvement on the health insurance program with 165 new medications that will now be refundable. Morocco has a compulsory health insurance programme. Seventy of the medications are expensive and often prescribed for chronic or severe diseases, such as cancer, […]
WHO Recognition for PDGN V-P
President of the Moroccan Parliamentary Diabetes Group and a Vice President of PDGN, Dr Mustafa Brahimi has been involved in a programme for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases including diabetes, the taxation of sugary drinks and universal health coverage. His work has been recognised by the World Health Organisation in its report: “WHO […]
News From Around the World
Morocco The Moroccan Diabetes League celebrated World Diabetes Day in the city of LAAYOUN in southern Morocco. Advocacy Action: Start planning now for World Diabetes Day 14th November 2020. Malta Thanks to campaigning MPs, an €800,000 investment will see 2,000 Type 2 diabetes patients on the Island, who previously paid for their insulin, receive it free […]
More News From Around The World
Morocco – PDGN Vice-president Mustafa Brahimi MP reports that the Moroccan Diabetes Fighting League is organising the 8th National Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition, Diabetes Morocco 2019 at Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, on July 5th and 6th. 2019. The event will be organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Moroccan Society of […]
PDGN Patron, the Hon Judi Moylan OA reports from Australia on a number of wins with the Government.
The Government has approved funding of over AUS $9 million to rollout a program in schools for children with Type 1 diabetes alongside other announcements in the Australian Government Budget 2018/19 including AUS $125 million for heart and diabetes research. Judi is working as co-chair with Professor Paul Zimmet on the Implementation Reference Group who were […]
Focus on Africa
The theme of this year’s World Diabetes Day was ‘The Family and Diabetes’ and organisations collaborated across the continent to mark the occasion and promote prevention, diagnosis and treatments. Here are just a few brief examples. A three day conference at the Ibn Tofeil University in Kenitra city, Morocco, was held. PDGN Vice-President Senator Mostafa […]