Note: Change in deadline for project applications

Please note that 6 July 2009 is the only remaining deadline for project application submission in 2009.

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Ghana: Remotely aware 

With 175 traditional doctors for every educated medical doctor in Ghana, it is no wonder that many people turn to traditional healing before turning to modern medical care. According to traditional beliefs, every illness has a reason and a cure. In such a context, the scientific description of diabetes as a chronic disease that cannot be cured – only managed and controlled - is difficult to fathom.

We meet a 53 year old man who came to the hospital when his leg was critically inflamed. And we get a report from a community-based project supported by the World Diabetes Foundation to create diabetes awareness camps in remote communities. The project joins hands with the local radio station whose wavelength reaches further than dirt roads.

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Congo: Beyond the ordinary

The prevalence rate of diabetes in the Republic of Congo carries no official figure. But with two thirds of the population living in urban areas, there are reasons to believe that the figure will follow the African tendency and increase. 

Meet a man who has left his fingerprints all over recent diabetes care initiatives in his home country – and continues to do so. Although humble and according to himself “very ordinary”, Dr. Evariste Bouenizabila has an extraordinary ability to get things around him moving. He is driven by the wish to make a difference for people with diabetes and lives out his dream on an everyday basis.

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Annual Review 2008

Articles in this year’s Annual Review demonstrate how primary prevention is key to slowing the diabetes epidemic.

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Summit Report 2008

The Report from the Diabetes Summit for South-East Asia, 2008 can now be downloaded

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