Help Us Promote the IDF Life for a Child Program
September 5th, 2007 by Kevin
The International Diabetes Federation is in the midst of preparations for the first UN-observed World Diabetes Day on 14 November this year. Please help us spread word of this worldwide event and the theme chosen for it this year - Diabetes in Children and Adolescents.
It is estimated that over 200 children develop type 1 diabetes every day and there’s no question that the disease often hits disadvantaged communities the hardest, and that children in the developing world can die because their parents are unable to afford medication. In many countries diabetes is still considered an adult disease and as a result can be diagnosed late with severe consequences, including death. Even after diagnosis many children experience poor control and develop complications early.
This is why one of the IDF’s key objectives for World Diabetes Day this year is to double the number of children covered by the Life for a Child Program . In concert with the IDF, Diabetech and our Preferred Provider Network partners want to encourage initiatives that can help to reduce diabetic ketoacidosis (diabetic coma) and to promote the sort of healthy lifestyles which can prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes in children.
The UN’s World Diabetes Day Resolution (61/225) was really just the first goal of an ambitious campaign that the IDF have been leading. This is the first time a non-communicable disease has been recognized as a serious threat to global public health and we are hoping now to further raise awareness globally of the disease that is predicted to contribute to 6% of the world’s mortality in 2007.
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