UN SUMMIT: VIEWS FROM THE DIABETES COMMUNITY

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UN SUMMIT: VIEWS FROM THE DIABETES COMMUNITY

The most positive message that came out of the UN summit was a commitment to ensure access to medicine for all. Other positive message includes the fact that Diabetes epidemic is being recognized. It is alarming to know that the current population of persons living with diabetes is 366million far from the previous figure of 285million as revealed by the President of International Diabetes Federation Professor Mbaya.

 This figure is far above the population of many countries put together and a quarter of this figure are undiagnosed. It is important that world leaders set up a special fund to fight this epidemic globally. It is sad to note that insulin a basic requirement for persons living with type 1 diabetes which is over 100 years of discovery is hadly available or affordable especially to those living in sub-saharan Africa.

Many African leaders pay lip service approach to the fight against diabetes. Persons living with diabetes find it difficult to acquire a glucose meter, a necessity for any person with diabetes.

The Ministries of health needs to  revigorate their NCD departments, paying full attention to the challenges of Diabetes to reduce these prevalence rate of diabetes by 2015.

Isaac Akogu

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Abuja, Nigeria.

Diabetes Education in Middle-age Schools

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Diabetes Education is a recent phenomenon which is an ingredient for Diabetes prevention strategies. The relevance of Diabetes Education cannot be by any means overemphasized. It is relevant to health care professionals, persons living with diabetes, relations of persons with diabetes and those at risk of developing diabetes.
Majority of the damages posed by diabetes is fueled by ignorance which can be effectively cured with education. Schools are environment for learning both moral and academic. It is the environment where peers are much influenced. This is the breeding ground for poor hygiene and eating habits and lifestyle that are on a long run injurious to the body wellbeing. This is the avenue where most smokers where given birth to!
Introducing diabetes education to school curricula is indeed a necessity to help address some of these ills at infancy. Diabetes Education does not involve diabetes matters alone but useful information on how best to enjoy a healthy life style.
Seasoned expert trainers should be sponsored to carry out trainers training to enable reach out to majority of persons living with diabetes presently and to help fight the damage ignorance is posing to those already with diabetes and those at risk of diabetes.
Diabetes education in middle age schools will automatically assist the school in meal planning; there will be appropriate regulation of beverage and fast foods vendors in around school environment and general consciousness on healthy living techniques.

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"Malnutrition Diabetes"

This is a form of Diabetes that strikes those with poor Nutrition. Dr Meredith Hawkins, a Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Diabetes Initiative at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University will be throwing Light on these Phenomenon as he gives a testimony to the US Congress come September, 27th 2010.


Elsewhere in South Africa in come 30th to 1st October 2010, leadership forum on diabetes will be holding a conference to strategize towards the forth coming UN summit on Non communicable diseases .All these points to the fact that diabetes if left unchecked will surprise the whole world particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

The incidence of diabetes is increasing worldwide at a rate that eclipses most other diseases. The WHO estimates that by the year 2030, more than 366 million people will be suffering from diabetes, a figure which outnumbers the total number of persons living with HIV/Aids. Majority of this figure will be from Sub-Saharan Africa with an estimate of about 298 million.

With concerted effort of the global community and individuals like you and I we can reverse this figure by the year 2030.

This is a clarion call on Heads of Governments, Legislatures , parliaments across the world to start discussing the impact of diabetes and other non communicable diseases on the global community.

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What impact has climate change had on me, my family or community.

The impact Climate change has brought to me, as a Nigerian in the continent of Africa is so much. With Climate change has come an increase in health problems such as malaria, meningitis and dengue fever. Our lands have warmed more than enough for mosquitoes to breed on. Every now and then, the strength of my immunity is brought to question by the vociferous attacks I receive from mosquitoes. A major chunk of the money I should have put into my academic pursuit I have spent trying to cater for my health care needs.


On any continent crop failure means trouble but in ours Africa, it is a catastrophe. I cannot do so much as regards growing some crop products I desire to have. My little farmland has come under the onslaught of drought, floods and other weather hazards associated with climate change. When I expect rain to fall, it does not and when I do not expect it to ,it falls and even turns to a flood, destroying my crops. I have to buy these materials from the market and some of these materials come to the market infected carrying diverse micro-organisms due to poor storage brought about by Climate change.

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My community is not left out. We depend so much on Livestock, which demand plentiful water and easy-to-reach areas in which to graze. When water gets scarce, they are turned to objects of pity. Oftentimes we are forced to move our herds southwards to relatively wetter areas which of course are occupied by other people from different communities thus precipitating intergroup conflicts. We have lost many of our brothers, cattle, property as a result of these conflicts. So much money has been lost. It is saddening. The aftermath in most cases is bitterness, depression, anger and many other vices that have led many into armed robbery, heartbreaks, suicide and a high rate of adult mortality. Our workforce has greatly been depleted. Climate change has done little or no good to the little progress we have achieved so far in terms of development. The few resources that we would have channeled into essential projects to further economic development have been diverted into settling these disputes, ensuring peace in crisis-ridden, war torn communities like ours.

Many have been rendered poor by these changes in climate; migration to the urban areas has heightened too leaving our rural areas vulnerable to desertification, erosion etc. On the other hand our urban areas have become overpopulated giving rise to issues of social concern namely: increase in the spread of air borne diseases, crimes, decline in food sources, wild game etc.

We need financial aid to enable us cope with the impact of these changes in climate. However the stark reality is that no amount of money is going to stop climate change from having an impact on me, my family, my community and Africa as a whole.



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