Eat. Sleep. Check sugar. Repeat.
Diabetes can bring endless medication, checks, appointments, questions, worries. Over and over again. And most people have no clue what it’s like to live with.
As we shine a light this World Diabetes Day on the realities of living with diabetes, this includes, for so many, encountering myths and misunderstandings of what diabetes is and what causes it, and negative attitudes and judgments surrounding the condition.
We are determined to end diabetes stigma, and we know that a crucial first step in tackling it is education. Diabetes is a complex and serious condition – both type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are driven by a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors, many of which we don’t yet fully understand, and over which a person may have little to no control.
We’re so grateful to all of our partners this year supporting our World Diabetes Campaign. Their support helps us fund our life-changing research into the complex causes of diabetes, advance new treatments and discoveries and move us closer to a cure.
It also means we’re able to amplify the voices of people living with diabetes to more people this year, and help more people to learn more about what diabetes is and what causes it.
* AstraZeneca and Kinetik Wellbeing have provided sponsorship towards this independent programme and have had no involvement in its creation or organisation.
