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Our ambition is to connect, advocate, and support efforts to keep diabetes high on the global health agenda.
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Together we can ensure that health policies — national, regional and global — are informed and endorsed by people living with diabetes.

09/09/2026

What does surviving six hospitalizations from Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) teach you about life, health, and advocacy?

Meet Thapi Semenya - advocate, digital marketing manager for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and a person living with type 1 diabetes for over 20 years.

In our latest People, Politics, and Business of Diabetes interview with Olivia Sophie Rafferty, Thapi discusses:

💙 how diabetes helped her learn empathy and how she uses her platform to help her community feel heard
💙 navigating your 20s as someone living with diabetes
💙 what getting hospitalized in DKA six times has taught her

Thapi also discusses the need for equitable care in South Africa, where diabetes is now the leading cause of death.

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02/09/2026

What does it take to turn 30+ years of living with a chronic condition into a national movement for change?

Meet .

She has been living with type 1 diabetes for over three decades now, is the founder of Diabetes Fighters Trust, and is a member of Voices In Action’s Strategic Committee.

In this interview with Voices in Action (VIA) Diabetes’s .rafferty, Mridula discusses:

💙 the stigma around people living with diabetes, especially women, in India, and the dark period she faced during her pregnancy
💙 standing up to stigma and the story behind Diabetes Fighters Trust
💙 the steep price of insulin (which is an out-of-pocket expenditure) in India

Mridula also discusses India’s new RBSK 2.0, which are national screening guidelines that now mention type 1 diabetes and the four Ts. While they are a big step forward for the nation, she discusses how they now need to be implemented.

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28/08/2026

in our most recent interview in the people, politics, and business of diabetes, we talked to Dr. Jean Claude Katte, a Public Health Consultant at the RSD Institute in Cameroon and a PhD student, who briefly touched on the subject of type 5 diabetes. scroll through our images to learn a bit more about what type 5 diabetes is 💙

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27/08/2026

Are you following the groundbreaking work transforming diabetes care across Africa? 🌍💡

Meet Jean Claude Katte, diabetes public health consultant at the RSD Institute in Cameroon, who is on on a mission to understand the pathogenesis of native Africans living with diabetes in Africa to increase their life expectancy. He found his passion for diabetes research early on in life and has since led several studies, including in his most recent role with the NIHR Global Health Diabetes Group at the University of Exeter.

In this interview with VIA, he discusses:
💙 his YODA study, which has uncovered cases of people with type 1 diabetes who are able to go long periods of time without need insulin because they have higher c peptide or higher endogenous insulin secretion levels
💙 type 5 diabetes (formerly known as malnutrition-related diabetes) and what we know about it so far
💙 how African governments could transform the quality of life for people living with diabetes within their countries

Jean Claude also gives us a scoop on his new PANDA study.

Tomorrow we will be posting content about type 5 diabetes.

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25/08/2026

What happens when a healthcare crisis meets a condition that never takes a day off?

How you can help:

💙 Raise awareness: Share reliable information and keep Syria in the conversation.
💙 Build connections: Connect decision-makers with local, trusted advocates.
💙 Show solidarity: Remind people living with diabetes in Syria that they are not forgotten.

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21/08/2026

what can we as those outside Syria help people living with diabetes inside the country? 💙

this is the final part of a series of questions we asked about the long-term impact of the Syrian conflict on people living with diabetes. the situation is extremely urgent and the more we can share and spread the word, and advocate for plwd in Syria, the better.

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20/08/2026

how is Batool Adawi leading the fight to make the lives of those living with diabetes better in Syria? 💙

this is part 2 of a series of questions we asked about the long-term impact of the Syrian conflict on people living with diabetes. the situation is extremely urgent and the more we can share and spread the word, and advocate for plwd in Syria, the better.

Follow to see part 3 tomorrow👇

19/08/2026

how are people living with diabetes being impacted by the situation in Syria? 💙

this is part 1 of a series of questions we asked about the long-term impact of the Syrian conflict on people living with diabetes. the situation is extremely urgent and the more we can share and spread the word, and advocate for plwd in Syria, the better.

Follow to see part 2 tomorrow👇

14/08/2026

scenes from last month’s Movimento Divabética fashion show at the T1D festival in london!!

learn more about the show in viadiabetes’s latest interview with Fabiana Couto 💙

13/08/2026

How can self-love be part of diabetes treatment? 💙

When .global was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 13, the hardest part wasn’t just managing the condition—it was the heavy mental toll that followed. Years of battling depression, eating disorders, and shame led her to a powerful realization: mental health and community are just as essential as clinical care.

Today, Fabiana is the founder of Movimento Divabética, an organization empowering people with diabetes through community, self-love, and bold events like the Divabetic Experience in Brazil and the Divabética Fashion Show in London.

In our latest VIA interview with Olivia Sophie Rafferty, Fabiana opens up about:
💙 the story behind Movimento Divabética and its mission
💙 fighting misinformation and reframing how diabetes is portrayed in the media
💙 the urgent gap in mental health resources within public health systems in Brazil and the UK

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