High prices, hard-to-access human insulin, few insulin producers, and weak health systems are just some of the barriers that people with diabetes face a century after insulin was discovered, WHO notes in a new repor

Technical guidelines for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and inter-institutional approach to people with diabetic neuropathy

Across the world more than 420 million people are living with diabetes. Two thirds of these have not yet been diagnosed. When discovered late or managed incorrectly, diabetes can damage your heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves, leading to disability and premature death. In fact, more people are dying of diabetes related diseases than of diseases as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined

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Recommendations on the management of diabetes mellitis during the COVID-19 pandemic

WHO Package of Essential NCD Interventions (PEN) Accessed March 18,2019

Position Statement Diabetes Care2018;42(Suppl. 1):S1–S194.