🔥 14th November is World wide Observed as “WORLD DIABETES DAY”
♦️ World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held on 14 November each year.
➡️ Theme for 2022: Education to Protect Tomorrow.
🟢 World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF (The International Diabetes Federation) and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225.
✅ It is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.
➡️➡️ FACTS & FIGURES
The IDF Diabetes Atlas provides the latest figures, information and projections on the global impact of diabetes.
- 537 million adults (1 in 10) were living with diabetes in 2021. This number is expected rise to 643 million by 2030 and 783 million by 2045.
- Almost 1 in 2 adults (44%) with diabetes remain undiagnosed (240 million). The majority have type 2 diabetes.
- More than 3 in 4 people with diabeteslive in low and middle-income countries.
- 541 million adults are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
- More than 1.2 million children and adolescents (0-19 years) live with type 1 diabetes
- Diabetes caused 6.7 million deaths in 2021.
- Diabetes was responsible for at least $966 billion in health expenditure in 2021 – 9% of the global total spent on healthcare.
- 1 in 6 live births (21 million) are affected by high blood glucose (hyperglycaemia) in pregnancy
✅✅ The campaign is represented by a blue circle logo that was adopted in 2007 after the passage of the UN Resolution on diabetes. The blue circle is the global symbol for diabetes awareness. It signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes epidemic.
Every year, the World Diabetes Day campaign focuses on a dedicated theme that runs for one or more years. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is Access to Diabetes Care.
