Africa
Ghana
Ark Development Organization
Ark Development Organization (ADO) is a health education, governance, and environmentally focused organization committed to improving the lives of deprived women, children and the disabled through capacity building, evidence-based advocacy, and participatory innovative programs. The organization’s diabetes support program minimizes health crises through early detection of type 1 and other diabetes and early uptake of treatment through community education, screening, linkage to treatment services, and case monitoring.
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Republic of Congo
La Maison Bleue du Diabète de Brazzaville (Diabaction Congo)
La Maison Bleue du Diabète is at the forefront of diabetes care for children, adolescents, young adults, and adults with type 1 diabetes living in the Republic of Congo. The association provides free medical consultations and insulin delivery to patients through two medical centers in Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. In addition, the association works to support the diabetes community in Congo through education, healthcare capacity building, and advocacy.
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Ethiopia
Ethiopian Diabetes Association
The Ethiopian Diabetes Association was established in 1976 to provide a platform for people living with diabetes to provide information and prevent treatment and related problems. The association was founded by the Ethiopian Medical Association, health care professionals, and people living with diabetes.
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Uganda
Innovations for Development
Innovations for Development (I4DEV) promotes and defends the health rights of current and future generations of Ugandans using innovative solutions, engaging communities, and delivering quality services while focusing on the most marginalized. Through this lens, the organization responds to the needs of people with type 1 diabetes through community building, health system strengthening, and advocacy.
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Zimbabwe
Midlands Diabetes Interest Group
Midlands Diabetes Interest Group raises awareness among people with diabetes through education and advising local communities. They offer comprehensive care of complex cases of diabetes and preventive management for patients with diabetes, and attention to pre-diabetic conditions in the Midlands province.
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Latin America
Argentina
Asociación para el Cuidado de la Diabetes en Argentina CUI.D.AR (Association for the Care of Diabetes in Argentina CUI.D.AR)
Founded by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, CUI.D.AR’s mission is to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes. They work to minimize the impact of diabetes on the lives of children, young people, and adults through prevention, social awareness raising, defense of rights and education. CUI.D.AR's work spans research, education, advocacy, awareness campaigns, incidence and design of public policies, and capacity building. It is the largest community of people living with diabetes in Argentina, and specifically the most representative in type 1 diabetes.
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Ecuador
Fundación Diabetes Juvenil Ecuador
The Fundación Diabetes Juvenil del Ecuador’s mission is to improve the quality of life for people with type 1 diabetes in Ecuador. They provide nutrition education, counseling, and peer support to people with type 1 diabetes, parents, or caregivers, and in schools.
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Venezuela
Guerreros Azules
Guerreros Azules advocates for diabetes care for children with type 1 diabetes in Venezuela. Their programs promote health services, education, recreational activities, and supplies and resources that support, treat, and save the lives of children in vulnerable conditions.
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Middle East
Turkey
Diyabetli Çocuklar Vakfi-Diyaçev (Diabetic Children Foundation)
Diabetic Children Foundation improves the lives of children with type 1 diabetes and their families. The foundation focuses on community awareness and stigma reduction, education, and access to technology for type 1 diabetes care and treatment.
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Palestine
Diabetes Palestine Association
Diabetes Palestine (DP) supports people living with diabetes in cooperation and coordination with care providers. Leveraging community-based approaches, DP provides comprehensive diabetes care with a focus on self-management and education to communities in West Bank and Gaza.
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South Asia
Republic of Maldives
Diabetes Society of Maldives
In 2004, Diabetes Society of Maldives (DSM) established a free clinic that provides diabetes services—including type 1 diabetes education, complication screening, and care at no cost to patients. DSM also acts as a center of information on diabetes in the Maldives by educating the community through screening programs, presentations, and health education.
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India
Nityaasha Foundation
Nityaasha Foundation supports children with type 1 diabetes from less privileged backgrounds by providing free medical aid (insulin and glucose strips) and pathology tests. At health centers and periodic home visits, Nityaasha staff closely monitor and educate families on proper insulin storage, insulin injection technique, injection sites, and daily blood glucose tests, and records the result. The team also provides information on type 1 diabetes day-to-day management to lead a normal quality of life.
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India
Samatvam: Science and Research for Human Welfare Trust
Samatvam: Science and Research for Human Welfare Trust is a group of institutions that treats and manages diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic disorders. The goal is to provide health care of the highest possible quality to the highest possible quantity— to foster humane, honest, and holistic health care.
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