WHO's Global Diabetes Compact Initiative

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched a Global Diabetes Compact Initiative.

About Global Diabetes Compact Initiative:

Global Diabetes Compact aims to reduce the risk of diabetes. It will ensure that all people diagnosed with diabetes have access to equitable, comprehensive, affordable, quality treatment and care.
This initiative launched at the Global Diabetes Summit.
WHO and the government of Canada Co-hosted the summit with the support of the University of Toronto.
Global Targets: The initiative will set standards for tackling the disease in the form of ‘global coverage targets’.
It will ensure a wider reach of diabetes care. A “global price tag” will also quantify the costs and benefits of meeting these new targets.

Need of Global Diabetes Compact

Diabetes is one of the major comorbid conditions. It is linked to severe COVID-19 infections.
The number of people with diabetes quadrupled in the last 40 years.
It is also the only major non-communicable disease for which the risk of dying early is going up rather than down.
About half of all adults with type 2 diabetes remain undiagnosed. And 50% of people with type 2 diabetes don’t get the insulin they need.

About Diabetes:

Diabetes is a Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose) or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces.

Types of Diabetes:

Type I diabetes: It is also known as juvenile diabetes (as it mostly affects children of age 14-16 years). It occurs when the body fails to produce sufficient insulin. People with type I diabetes are insulin-dependent which means they must take artificial insulin daily to stay alive.
Type 2 diabetes: It affects the way the body uses insulin. While the body still makes insulin, unlike in type I, the cells in the body do not respond to it as effectively as they once did. This is also the most common type of diabetes, and it has strong links with obesity.
Gestational diabetes: This type occurs in women during pregnancy when the body sometimes becomes less sensitive to insulin.

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