World Diabetes Day

World Diabetes Day (WDD) was first created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. The WDD became an official United Nations Day in 2006 and is marked every year on 14 November. It is currently the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries.

Every year, the WDD campaign focuses on a dedicated theme. Access to Diabetes Care is the theme for World Diabetes Day 2021–23, such as access to healthy diet and a place for physical activities, access to diabetes education programmes and psychological support, access to the equipment and supplies for self-monitoring of blood glucose levels, and access to oral medicines or insulin for regulating blood glucose levels.

For more information of the WDD, please visit https://worlddiabetesday.org/about/.