National diabetes programme

Area Partner Project responsible Duration Project budget WDF contribution Project number

China Ministry of Health, China Dr. L. Kong November 2003 - October 2008 USD 2,636,289 USD 1,240,915 WDF02-036

Objective

The project aims to improve the capacity to prevent, detect and treat diabetes and reduce the burden of diabetes on the Chinese society.

Expected impact

• 500 million people with access to effective and affordable diabetes care
• 8,000 doctors and nurses will benefit directly through training and on-the-job practice
• Diagnosis will initially increase by 2,5 million new cases per year
• Long term reduction in diabetes prevalence and diabetes related complications

Results to date

• Approx. 11,700 doctors, nurses and health officials from more than 50 cities all over China have been trained, using the 'National Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Guideline' developed by the project.
• A total of 9 hospital sites or community health centres have either piloted, launched or continue to work with the integrated model to manage diabetes systematically, ensuring referral procedures for screening of patients.

Additional information on the project can be found here.

This page was last updated 9-11-2008 by uun.wdf