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World Diabetes Foundation

Diabetes at Work: Unseen Struggles and Everyday Resilience in LMICs

13 Nov 2025

Globally, an estimated 430 million working-age adults live with diabetes, many of whom reside in LMICs. This year, World Diabetes Day draws attention to the daily struggles faced by people with diabetes in the workplace: stigma, discrimination, exclusion, anxiety, and restricted access to care.The conversation around diabetes and employment is often complex, particularly in LMICs, where informal w...

13 Nov 2025

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World Diabetes Foundation

Digital solutions for diabetes: Enhancing healthcare capacity in LMICs

Malawi

26 Aug 2025

Through co-creation efforts, the Diabetes Compass Initiative sought to transform diabetes care pathways through digital innovation for capacity building of local healthcare workers. Malawi and Tanzania serve as examples.

26 Aug 2025

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World Diabetes Foundation

Building healthy futures: Addressing Hyperglycemia in pregnancy in Latin America

26 Aug 2025

Hyperglycemia in pregnancy poses serious risks to maternal and child health. In August 2025, the World Diabetes Foundation hosted a Partner2Partner webinar featuring experts from PAHO, Fundación Vida Nueva, and Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, showcasing how education and local partnerships are driving healthcare improvements across Latin America.

26 Aug 2025

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World Diabetes Foundation

Health equity in humanitarian settings: WDF and UNHCR’s partnership

Burundi

19 Aug 2025

After three years of targeted efforts, the first phase of the partnership between the World Diabetes Foundation and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has now been completed.The collaboration has delivered strong results in preventing, diagnosing, and treating non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and mental health disorders among displaced people and host communities in Tanzania,...

19 Aug 2025

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World Diabetes Foundation

The national NCD response of the United Republic of Tanzania – best practice and nation-wide scale up

United Republic of Tanzania

20 Jun 2025

Over the past decade, the United Republic of Tanzania (population of 67 million, including the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar with 1.2 million), has taken a lead in sub-Saharan Africa in terms of developing and implementing policies and action plans to address the burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Unlike many low-income countries where national NCD strategies often...

20 Jun 2025

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World Diabetes Foundation, SolidarMed

Zimbabwean men unite to advocate for diabetes care

Zimbabwe

30 Oct 2024

'We realised it was necessary to form an association. Why? So we could go and motivate our own, which are other men, who live in rural areas,' says Luckson Zanamwe, a member of a diabetes self-support group at Chikombedzi Hospital, Zimbabwe. &nbsp; Luckson's group was formed as part of the&nbsp;'Improving access and quality of diabetes care in rural Zimbabwe'&nbsp;project, funded by WDF....

30 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation, Helen Keller International

Cambodia’s sprouts of change: healthier futures through safer child nutrition in schools

28 Oct 2024

Imagine travelling across vast fields of rice, when you suddenly find yourself in a schoolyard.&nbsp;A Buddhist pagoda with gardens and ornate shrines stands out, a bit farther from the school in front of you. Built on land donated by the pagoda, the school serves as a learning hub for 450 children in the community. &nbsp; From morning to evening, the schoolyard is animated with the sights a...

28 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation

Heroes of remote Nepal: Women leading the way to healthier communities

Nepal

25 Oct 2024

Women in Nepal have become promising agents of change, improving control of type 2 diabetes and social trust. Now, a scale-up to rural areas is expanding the role of female community health volunteers in strengthening a vulnerable health system.&nbsp; Although the pilot ended in 2022, it has been five years since WDF’s last visit to Nepal; pandemic restrictions and difficult road access made...

25 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation

Breaking barriers: Liberia’s journey from modest diabetes clinic to national NCD response

Liberia

24 Oct 2024

A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing. This Liberian proverb seems to embody the progress in addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). With WDF funding, Liberia’s first national NCD programme completed this year has been showing how small, consistent actions&nbsp;can&nbsp;drive results in a country in recovery.&nbsp; Home to 5.4 million people, Liberia has endur...

24 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation

New film series explores the power in community healthcare education in Jordan

Jordan

28 May 2024

When it comes to health, people do not share the same opportunities. Addressing health inequality and closing gaps in healthcare requires worldwide collaboration and raises a difficult question: who is responsible for our health? In partnership with the WHO Foundation, a new online series, produced for WHO Foundation and partners by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, sets out to explore how we...

28 May 2024

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UNHCR, World Diabetes Foundation

Elderly Refugee Couple benefit from Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs) - Project

United Republic of Tanzania

08 May 2024

Community sensitization, mobilization and early diagnosis is saving lives of non-communicable disease refugee patients specifically diabetes in Tanzania.

08 May 2024

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NCD Alliance, World Diabetes Foundation

Jordan puts NCDs at heart of UHC and humanitarian response

Jordan

08 May 2024

Jordan’s government and civil society are stepping up action to strengthen NCD prevention and care, working together as part of their commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to reduce the NCD burden among both refugees and vulnerable Jordanians.

08 May 2024

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