World Diabetes Day

In a powerful message for World Diabetes Day 2024, WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, sounded alarm on the escalating diabetes crisis in Africa, attributing it to urbanization, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity.…

Roche Diabetes Care in collaboration with the Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN) and ISN Medical, have launched a nationwide diabetes screening campaign to promote early diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Tosin Akinsulire, Product…

An NGO, Ahmed Bola Oduleye Charity (ABOC) Foundation, on Tuesday has embarked on sensitisation and free diabetes screening for no fewer than 200 residents of Adogi Community near Lafia, Nasarawa State. The medical outreach was as part of…

The wife of Anambra Governor Mrs Nonye Soludo, founder of the non-governmental organization, Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo, has called for reevaluation of dietary lifestyle and physical habits in the face of growing mortalities resulting…

Diabetes Control Media Advocacy Initiative (DICOMAI), a Non-Governmental Organization formed by a group of Nigerian journalists to assist in the control of diabetes, has raised the alarm on a looming epidemic of diabetes complications in…

A family physician, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, has appealed to the Federal Government to ensure responsible pricing mechanism of life saving medicine to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in the country. Sodipo, Head, Family Medicine…

The Federal Ministry of Health has launched the icare initiative to commemorate the 2022 world diabetes day. The event with the theme, access to Diabetes care "Education to protect tomorrow" was commemorated in partnership with the royal…

A philanthropic international organization known as the Lions Club has conducted free blood glucose screening of more than 700 people in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, southern Nigeria. Read: Diabetes during…