To continue with November Diabetes Awareness Month, I wanted to share all of the planned themes throughout the month and every year new themes are organized for this very important topic and awareness. There was so much valuable information that I thought best to add a part-3.
Diabetes Awareness Days and Weeks
• More than 460 million people are living with diabetes worldwide, so it’s a huge task to educate people about the disease in its various forms, according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). While nations choose different weeks and months to focus awareness on it each year, they all come together in observance one day a year.
• As the ADA notes, action is needed every day to reduce the effects of diabetes on the entire global population. “Diabetes isn’t going away until we all do our part,” says Daisy Diaz, a spokesperson for the ADA. “There is simple yet life-changing steps we can all take to recognize, reduce our risk, and ease the burden of diabetes.
Week 1 (November 1–7): Step Up Awareness The first thing to do is to educate yourself, says the ADA. It provides information and resources at Diabetes.org/adm.
Week 2 (November 8–14): Step Up Detection Knowing the risk factors for type 2 diabetes is one of the first steps in preventing the disease. The organization encourages people to take a risk test at Diabetes.org/risktest.
Week 3 (November 15–21): Step Up Management To help people living with diabetes thrive, the ADA provides healthy recipes at Diabetes.org/foodhub and a healthy living newsletter. It will also host a fitness challenge on exercise tracking app Strava.
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Week 4 (November 22–28): Step Up and Thrive The group encourages those inspired by the previous steps and their personal progress to be advocates for more funding, healthcare access, and affordable treatments. Its advocacy hub is at Diabetes.org/advocacy.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
The JDRF, which is focused on type 1 diabetes research and advocacy, will unveil programming around the theme “Movers, Shakers, T1D Changemakers.” Activities will include conferences and fundraising walks in cities around the United States and local galas. Team JDRF will take part in the New York City Marathon also. The latest activities for Diabetes Awareness Month will be listed at JDRF.org/ndam.
World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2021
Beyond the activities of these U.S.-based organizations, groups around the globe will observe World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2021. The theme, which will be used through 2023, is “Access to Diabetes Care.” It was chosen to highlight the barriers to getting the medicine, technologies, support, and care millions need to manage the disease 100 years after insulin was first used for diabetes treatment. “The centenary of the discovery of insulin presents a unique opportunity to bring about meaningful change for the more than 460 million people living with diabetes and the millions more at risk,” according to the International Diabetes Federation.
Source of Information: Various Google Searches
Until Next Time, Stay Safe and Well!
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