In 2021, there were estimated to be 529 million people worldwide, living with Diabetes and it is one of the main causes of death and disability worldwide[1].
Diabetes, along with its associated complications including heart disease, kidney disease, vision impairment, and limb amputation, severely affects a person’s quality of life and well-being.
Reducing the diabetes burden requires interventions that emphasise early diagnosis and access to treatment in primary healthcare settings.
As today, the 14th November, marks World Diabetes Day, we are highlighting our ‘free to access’ Diabetes Clinical Guide. This is one of a number of Clinical Guides written by clinicians, for clinicians, working in primary healthcare settings. The guides are pragmatic, evidence based guidance on clinical care in humanitarian, low and middle income settings and are aligned to the WHO Essential Medicines List.
At Primary Care International, we offer these Clinical Guides as part of a package of training that includes knowledge, skills and systems to allow clinicians and managers to develop their service to offer reliable, compassionate and good quality care to patients. This training is hosted on the PCI Academy, our online training platform and includes online self-paced independent learning and remote live workshops. Please contact PCI at mail@pci-360.com if you would like to find out more about this work.
Join us on Wednesday 27th November 2024 between 10am – 1pm GMT, for our online Voices from the Field Seminar, to hear primary health care practitioners present and discuss their experience of diagnosing, treating and managing patients with non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes. Details on how to sign up and join are here.
[1] Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 – The Lancet