Gwendolyn Carleton
Projects signed thus far focus on Francophone Africa and COVID-19, as well as diabetes prevention and integrated care.
Staff and a patient in a clinic strengthened by WDF16-1375 in Sierra Leone. Two new WDF projects in the country were signed in the first half of 2020.
WDF funded a total of 15 new projects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the first half of 2020.
Three new projects in West Africa and Comoros are part of a new WDF collaboration with the French Development Agency that will consolidate national responses to diabetes care and prevention. Two more, in Jordan and Tanzania, address the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian and low-income settings.
The remaining projects offer innovative approaches to diabetes prevention, integrated care, and care of diabetes complications in selected settings around the world. New projects signed in the first six months of 2020
