Non-Communicable Diseases & Diabetes
Diabetes is at crisis levels. We cannot afford to delay action any longer; the human misery and suffering caused by diabetes is unacceptable and unsustainable.
Every year, over four million people die from diabetes, and tens of millions more suff er disabling and life-threatening complications such as heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation.
Diabetes is also implicated in and has negative consequences for certain infectious diseases,
other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and for mental health.
Diabetes is not only a health crisis, it is a global societal catastrophe. Governments worldwide are struggling to meet the cost of diabetes care.
Costs to employers and national economies are escalating and every day low-income families are being driven into poverty by loss of earnings due to diabetes and the life-long costs of healthcare.