Diabetes: A Family Matter

Resources: Diabetes Month

American Diabetes Month: November is American Diabetes Month®, a time to bring even greater awareness and attention to the seriousness of diabetes, its deadly complications, and the importance of proper diabetes control.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention: November is Diabetes Month: This website will provide you with useful information to use to inform your local community about diabetes and its prevention and management. You will find links here to recent facts that you might want to include in building a local media campaign.
International Diabetes Federation: This group sponsors a world diabetes day in November. They also have excellent resources for health professionals. The revised edition of the International Diabetes Federation's International Curriculum for Diabetes Health Professional Education is now available. The new edition includes the latest evidence-based references, several new modules, and information reflecting new and innovative approaches to diabetes management and education. This can be downloaded from the site.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: This site is supported by doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion. This site has many different kinds of information besides about diabetes. The group supported the world diabetes day.