Don’t Forget World Diabetes Day: Mark Your Calendars for 14th November
14 November 2024 – World Diabetes Day (WDD), celebrated every year on November 14th, serves as a global platform to raise awareness about diabetes and advocate for improved health outcomes for those living with the condition. From 2024 to 2026, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has designated Diabetes and Well-being as the theme, reflecting the […]
More News From Around the World: EU Parliament Call for Diabetes
CAPTION: “Data on diabetes and pre-diabetes is often lacking and we are working to fill this gap,” EU Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Last month, the European Parliament adopted a motion for resolution on the prevention, management and better care of diabetes in the EU, marking World Diabetes Day 2022. 32 million adults are living with diabetes in the […]
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Priority Groups Targeted in New Aussie Diabetes Strategy PDGN Patron, Hon Judi Moylan AO, is delighted that the national diabetes strategy, she and others helped to produce was released on WDD 21 by the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt. Its aim is to reduce the incidence and impacts of the disease […]
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Spain – In Valencia, Spain, an annual event marking WDD took place. The V111 Race Walk took place in Alicante on 14 November. Its aim is to highlight diabetes, promote healthy lifestyles. The walk, or run, is over 5 kilometres and starts in the morning from the beach at San Juan. It was carried out […]
World Diabetes Day 2021
World Diabetes Day (WDD) is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Fredrick Banting, who discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. Cyprus – For WDD the Medieval Castles of Paphos and Larnaka, as well as the Cyprus Museum at Nicosia (pictured), were lit blue. The Cyprus Diabetic Association persuaded the […]
Time in Range Movement Boost
In advance of World Diabetes Day (WDD) 2021, Dexcom helped launch The Global Movement for Time in Range in partnership with leading not-for-profits in the diabetes community, including Beyond Type 1, JDRF, TCOYD, College Diabetes Network, and Children with Diabetes. ‘Time in range’ is the percentage of time spent by a patient with glucose levels in their target range. The global initiative focuses on […]
Global Walk for Diabetes
The World Diabetes Foundation is promoting organised walks around World Diabetes Day that falls each year on 14th November. The Foundation has produced comprehensive guides in numerous languages to help people organise one. Advocacy Action: Could you organise a walk among Parliamentarians? Your national diabetes association might be willing to help with the organisational leg […]
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Aussies Get Their Socks Off Again Every year there are more than 27,000 hospital admissions in Australia for diabetes-related foot ulcers. Many of these will lead to people having a limb, or part of a limb, amputated. However, a new pathway tool developed by Diabetes Australia and the Australian Diabetes Society, will help health professionals […]
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Kenya A Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre event partnered with the Ministry of Health, Novo Nordisk and Roche was used to highlight the burden of Diabetes in the country and the plight of people living with diabetes. Held at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi the event majored on the role nurses and other health workers […]
World Diabetes Day Report
What you got up to and ideas for next year. Sri Lanka A Sri Lankan home nursing service was at the forefront of advocating this year’ s campaign for World Diabetes Day – ‘Nurses Make the Difference’, by recognising the important work nurses perform. The World Diabetes Day theme aimed to value the crucial role […]
PDGN News
We have 11 members in the Lebanon and our thoughts and good wishes go out to them, their families and friends following the devastating explosion in Beirut where most are based. Oh Vienna! It was a most unusual European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) annual meeting this year. Technically we were in Vienna, […]
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 […]
Some Ideas for World Diabetes Day tried in Parliaments around the world.
● A Children’s lobby of Parliament – usually in association with a national diabetes organisation or JDRF if active in your country, where children with diabetes come to meet their elected representatives and tell them about their experience of living with diabetes. ● Testing Day for Parliament – usually in association with a national diabetes […]
World Diabetes Day
World Diabetes Day (WDD) has been running annually on November 14 since 1991 and this year’s theme is ‘Protect the Family’. In 2006 WWD became an official United Nations Day, and the campaign reaches a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. WWD aims to draw attention to the issues […]
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Good & Not So Good News From the UK A well-timed announcement improving public funded access for the Freestyle Libre sensor monitoring system was made by the UK Government on World Diabetes Day. Local health care bodies will decide who can be prescribed the device used by Prime Minister Theresa May and it is expected […]
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 […]
The 14th November will soon be upon us
‘The Family and Diabetes’ was defined as the theme for the World Diabetes Day Campaign 2018 – 2019. If you haven’t anything planned yet, talk to your national diabetes association about how you can get involved. By working together you can raise the profile of diabetes on WDD and all year round.
WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR WDD?
World Diabetes Day (WDD) has been running annually on November 14 since 1991. It began in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by the illness. In 2006 WWD became an official United Nations Day, and the campaign reaches a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. […]