World Diabetes Day 2020

World Diabetes Day is a global occasion on which people with diabetes, health professionals, diabetes advocates, media, the general public and government organisations unite to raise awareness of diabetes.

WORLD DIABETES DAY

World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. 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 over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. The campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in the public and political spotlight.

HERE ARE SOME IDEAS OF HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED:

• Organize a diabetes information session for residents in your community

• Organize a ‘Learn about diabetes’ event in schools or through online learning platforms

• Exercise in blue or join the Global Diabetes Walk

• Help people learn their potential risk of type 2 diabetes with our online test

• Organize a themed activity with your healthcare team

• Arrange an activity with your work colleagues

• Organize, sponsor or take part in a local diabetes fair

• Keep COVID-19 physical distancing restrictions in mind and hold events remotely