Experts Diabetes

22.04.19 / News / Author: Martin
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Brussels, Belgium (Marketwire November 12, 2009) the Republic of Mauritius in collaboration with the World Health Organization Region African and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) will today inaugurate the International Conference on Diabetes and associated diseases in Port Louis, Mauritius to highlight its concern at the rapid growth of the epidemic of diabetes in Africa. The Conference will be held from 12 to 14 November, being this last day the World Diabetes Day. The Panafricana Conference will count with the presence of the Regional Director for the African Region who and Ministers from 46 African countries, directors of the world who, experts from the Fidelity and other leading experts in the world to discuss current problems, recent developments and control and prevention studies of diabetes and its complications. The participants will also evaluate the latest and best scientific practices based on evidence for the treatment of the diabetes epidemic and its associated complications-. The goal is to form a strategic alliance among health professionals who provide time and appropriate framework to implement a National Diabetes service and its procedure, and Diabetes (Res.61/225) UN resolution. Africa will have the highest percentage in the number of people with diabetes in the next 20 years due to rapid industrialization and general improvements in the quality of life over the past five decades according to the latest figures of the IDF Diabetes Atlas 4th Edition. At least 80% of people with diabetes in Africa are undiagnosed. The picture is gray for those already diagnosed with diabetes.

As shown by the data of the IDF, most who die due to diabetes are in the economically productive group (30 to 60 years) (1). No country is immune to diabetes and no country has the answers for this common enemy we face. No country so far has been able to reverse the trend of the increasing prevalence.