25 Feb 2025
The Kids and Diabetes in Schools (KiDS) programme aims to bring diabetes education to schools to fight diabetes-related stigma and promote healthy lifestyles to tackle preventable for type 2 diabetes risk factors. This guide was created to supp...
27 Sep 2024
Dr Iryna Vlasenko is a Ukrainian pharmacist and Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation. She lives with type 1 diabetes. She remembers her reaction to being told she had diabetes, 31 years ago: “I could not accept my diagnosis. I was a student. I was a very active person in every way, dancing, doing sport. This couldn’t be happening to me, it wasn’t possible. A condi...
27 Sep 2024
Fact sheet
09 Jul 2024
This document is the seventh in a series of Tobacco Knowledge Summaries. This document is prepared with the objective to summarize the current evidence on the association between tobacco use and diabetes. This is also intended as an advocacy too...
08 May 2024
World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) and Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) have signed a seven-year Partnership Framework Agreement (2024-2030), granting 260 million DKK to WDF to accelerate prevention and care for diabetes and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The partnership is guided by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal targe...
08 May 2024
04 Apr 2024
Experiences with Posbindu The increasing trends of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the world, including Indonesia, require targeted and specific primary and secondary prevention [1,2]. Almost 1 in 3 adults in Indonesia has hypertension, but only less than 30% is aware of the hypertension status, and only 47% of people with Diabetes is aware of the diabetes status [3]. Therefore,...
04 Apr 2024
22 Jan 2024
Prevalence of diabetes among the adult population in Ukraine is over 7%, and reduced access to appropriate diabetes care was quickly identified as a health crisis when the war began, garnering attention in international media and journals. At the start of the war, NGOs such as the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Beyond Type 1 and JDRF worked with WHO and the Ministry of Health to understa...
22 Jan 2024
06 Dec 2023
Mira, a tenacious and energetic 67-year-old woman from Alamedin district near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, has been living with diabetes since 1985. Her story is one of resilience and community, and conviction that living a healthy life is possible. As an active member of a local support group, she is a passionate advocate for the effectiveness of these groups in helping people manage their con...
06 Dec 2023
27 Nov 2023
“It’s important to me that diabetes doesn’t interrupt my life” - Alexandra Alexandra helps people in Lisbon, Portugal, with how to deal with their diabetes through a peer support group. “I help people with diabetes to accept the disease and control and manage it. It’s really rewarding. I feel happy when I have success organizing activities for people with diabetes. When I fee...
27 Nov 2023
08 Aug 2023
In Africa, the number of people with diabetes is on the rise due to increasing urbanization and unhealthy changes to their nutrition and lifestyle. According to the International Diabetes Federation’s 2021 Diabetes Atlas, this number is predicted to increase by 129% by 2045, from 24 to 55 million people living with diabetes – taking a significant toll on the populations, the states and the alr...
08 Aug 2023
15 Feb 2023
Type 1 Diabetes and the next generation of leaders: Mark’s lived experience in Brazil “When I received the diagnosis, it was […] difficult to deal with a situation that was now mine. Even though I saw other people with diabetes […], they were much older, and I didn't know anyone my age who had diabetes. That's why it's not easy to face it., recalls Dr Mark Barone, the Brazil...
15 Feb 2023
30 Apr 2020
The IDF Diabetes Atlas is an authoritative resource on the global impact of diabetes. First published in 2000, it is updated periodically by IDF in collaboration with experts from around the world and contains data on diabetes prevalence, mortality, and expenditure on global, regional and national levels. The IDF Diabetes Atlas draws attention to the importance and growing impact of...
30 Apr 2020
30 Apr 2020
An interview with Prof. Andrew Boulton, President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), on how COVID-19 affects people with diabetes and what they should know and do to help prevent and manage the illness.
30 Apr 2020
