WDF partnerships address these inadequacies and utilise opportunities to integrate and add diabetes and NCD prevention and treatment into existing services and programmes.
Access to care projects often include:
- Capacity building and integration of diabetes care into primary healthcare services
- Training of doctors, nurses, midwives and other healthcare providers
- Mobilisation of community health workers
- Education of patients and families in self-management and care
- Establishment or strengthening of clinics, including mobile clinics
- Implementation of guidelines and protocols
- Use of health information systems, registers, e-health and m-health
- Establishment of referral systems
- Support from patient associations and health authorities
- Sensitisation of key opinion leaders, media and press
- Strengthening of distribution and supply chains