Africa

Diabetes used to be viewed as a rare disease in Africa. In the last 30 - 40 years this situation has changed. Diabetes is now regarded as a major health problem and challenge throughout Africa.

 The World Diabetes Foundation presently supports the following projects in Africa:

• Diabetes foot care - Step by Step, Tanzania/India
• Diabetes education manual, Sub-Sahara
• Diabetes practice guidelines, Sub-Sahara
• Improving access to diabetes care, Tanzania
• Diabetes and hypertension, Tanzania
• Improving diabetes care, Mozambique
• Diabetes education programme, Kenya
• Improving access to diabetes care, Seychelles
• Strenghtening referral system, Tanzania
• Community diabetes care, Ghana
• Training of health personnel, Mali
• Cameroon burden of diabetes II, Cameroon
• Training in diabetes care, West Africa
• National diabetes prevalence study, Uganda
• Improving diabetes care, DR Congo
• Training of health care providers and educators, Rwanda
• Mobile diabetes care delivery, Sudan
• Integrated management of diabetes in children, Sudan
• Early identification of diabetes in HIV-positive people
• School-based intervention programme, South Africa
• Prevention and treatment of diabetic retinopathy, Cameroon
• Improving diabetes care in four districts, Uganda
• Diabetes care promotion, Sudan
• Reduction of diabetes burden, Eritrea
• Improving diabetes care in ten districts, Uganda
• Gestational Diabetes, Sudan
• Diabetes care in the private sector, Tanzania
• Training of diabetes awareness educators, Togo
• Community health care and education network, Burundi

This page was last updated 12-21-2007 by taj.wdf