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  1. World Diabetes Day 2023

    14 November 2023. Type 1 diabetes is not preventable. Type 2 diabetes is often preventable through a healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation.

  2. World Diabetes Day

    14 November is World Diabetes Day. Established in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation with support from WHO in response to growing concerns about the health and economic threat posed by diabetes, World Diabetes Day became an official UN day in 2006.

  3. World Diabetes Day

    14 November 2020. The battle against diabetes continues across the world and in the WHO South-East Asia Region. Globally, more than 420 million adults live with diabetes, of which more than 96 million are in the Region. The global burden is expected to rise to 578 million by 2030 and 700 million by 2045, due primarily to increases in low- and ...

  4. 90 days to World Diabetes Day!

    90 days to World Diabetes Day! 14 August 2023. This year marks the third and final year of the World Diabetes Day 2021-23 theme on access to diabetes care. This year's campaign focuses on the importance of knowing your risk of type 2 diabetes to help delay or prevent the condition and highlighting the impact of diabetes-related complications ...

  5. About WDD

    World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225. It is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. WDD is the world's largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of ...

  6. Key messages

    Know your risk, Know your response. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is access to diabetes care. In 2023, the campaign focuses on the importance of knowing your risk of type 2 diabetes to help delay or prevent the condition and highlighting the impact of diabetes-related complications and the importance of having access to the right ...

  7. World Diabetes Day

    The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is access to diabetes care. 100 years after the discovery of insulin, millions of people with diabetes around the world cannot access the care they need.

  8. PDF WDD 2022 THEME AND KEY CAMPAIGN MESSAGES

    the theme of World Diabetes Day 2022, the second year of the 2021-23 focus on access to diabetes care. This year's campaign focuses on the need for better access to quality diabetes education for health professionals and people living with diabetes. One in 10 adults around the world now live with diabetes, an estimated 537 million people ...

  9. 70 days to World Diabetes Day!

    70 days to World Diabetes Day! Know your risk, Know your response is the slogan for IDF's campaign to mark Diabetes Awareness Month and World Diabetes Day this November. Our actions focus on the importance of knowing your risk of developing type 2 diabetes to delay or prevent the condition. We highlight the impact of diabetes-related ...

  10. World Diabetes Day

    World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held on 14 November each year. [1] WDD is led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and each World Diabetes Day focuses on a theme related to diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a largely preventable and treatable non-communicable disease ...

  11. Key messages

    The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents aged 5-19 rose dramatically from 4% in 1975 to over 18% in 2016. Deaths from diabetes increased by 70% globally between 2000 and 2019. The condition is also responsible for the largest rise in male deaths among the top 10 causes of death, with an 80% increase since 2000.

  12. World Diabetes Day 2021

    World Diabetes Day 2021. 14 November 2021. Message of WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti. On 14 November, the international community commemorates World Diabetes Day to raise awareness of the growing burden of this disease, and strategies to prevent and treat it. The theme this year, and until 2023, is "Access to diabetes ...

  13. World Diabetes Day 2022

    Message from the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti The international community commemorates World Diabetes Day on 14 November every year, to raise awareness of the growing burden of this disease, and strategies to prevent and manage the threat. This year's theme is again "Access to diabetes care", as it was last year, and will be again in 2023, highlighting the ...

  14. Speech on World Diabetes Day

    1-minute Speech on World Diabetes Day. Ladies and Gentlemen, let's talk about a very special day, World Diabetes Day. It's a day that falls on November 14th each year. This day is like a big alarm, reminding us of a health problem that affects millions of people around the world - Diabetes. Diabetes is like a sneaky thief.

  15. World Diabetes Day 2022

    Participate in the webinar to launch the "Panorama of Diabetes in the Americas" Friday, November 11, 2022, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EST), held by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to mark World Diabetes Day 2022. This virtual meeting will introduce the Panorama of Diabetes in the Americas, a technical report developed by PAHO's ...

  16. World Diabetes Day

    Diabetes and well-being is the theme for World Diabetes Day 2024 to 2026. More details and supporting information and resources will be available soon. Learn more. Support our call to action to policymakers. Take part in the World Diabetes Day 2023 call to action. Send a letter to your national health minister or Permanent Mission to the United ...

  17. World Diabetes Day

    World Diabetes Day 2023. World Diabetes Day is the world's largest diabetes awareness campaign, reaching a global audience of more than one billion people.. In 2023, IDF Europe is conducting a communications campaign throughout November which highlights some key events and milestones for people living with diabetes in Europe, including the first anniversary of the European Parliament ...

  18. World Diabetes day speech

    In honor of this momentous day, I would like to present a World Diabetes Day speech. On November 14th of each year, we commemorate World Diabetes Day. The "World Health Organization" is a co-sponsor of the event. In 2003, advocacy groups worked to raise awareness of diabetes complications in more than 130 different nations. On November 14 ...

  19. World Diabetes Day 2021

    The Day also comes at a time when the world continues to live through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has not only resulted in a high proportion of people with diabetes among hospitalized patients with severe manifestations of COVID-19 and among those who have succumbed to the virus, but has also led to severe disruption of diabetes services.

  20. World Diabetes Day: Diabetes becoming the biggest epidemic?

    November 14th is celebrated as the World Diabetes Day created in 1991 ... A disease that may frighten you but at the same time has become a common health issue. November 14th is celebrated as the ...

  21. World Diabetes Day 2023

    Regional Commemoration of World Diabetes Day. Join us on Tuesday, 14 November, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 14:00 (Washington DC time, o EST) on the Regional Commemoration of World Diabetes Day. This event will take place in Mexico City, Mexico, and will count with live broadcast via Zoom plataform. Its purpose is to highlight the importance of ...

  22. Brazil's X ban drives outraged Bolsonaro supporters to rally for 'free

    SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro flooded Sao Paulo's main boulevard for an Independence Day rally Saturday, buoyed by the government's blocking of tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution.. A few thousand demonstrators, clad in the yellow-and-green colors of Brazil's flag ...

  23. World Diabetes Day 2022

    World Diabetes Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness of diabetes as a global public health issue and what needs to be done, collectively and individually, for better prevention, diagnosis and management of the condition. This year's theme, 'access to diabetes education', underpins the larger multi-year theme of 'access to care'.

  24. World Physiotherapy Day Speech: Short and Long Speech in English

    Below, we have provided a short and a long speech that further explores the significance of World Physiotherapy Day and recognises the invaluable work of physiotherapists across the globe. 10 Lines on World Physiotherapy Day 2024. World Physiotherapy Day is celebrated annually on September 8th to honour the contributions of physiotherapists ...

  25. Breaking the silence on World Diabetes Day, hearing from people living

    Breaking the silence on World Diabetes Day, hearing from people living with diabetes. 14 November 2023. People with diabetes continue to carry a heavy burden of stigma and discrimination around the world. On World Diabetes Day, we read about the experiences of 6 individuals who shed light on the challenges they've faced following their diagnosis.

  26. Trump suggests tariffs can help solve rising child care costs in a

    In his speech, Trump said he would immediately issue "a national emergency declaration" to achieve a massive increase in the domestic energy supply and eliminate 10 current regulations for every ...