{"id":7951,"date":"2022-11-11T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2022-11-11T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:24:10","slug":"world-diabetes-day-14-11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2022\/11\/11\/world-diabetes-day-14-11-22\/","title":{"rendered":"World Diabetes Day 14\/11\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Diabetes Day <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2022\/11\/world-diabetes-day.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2022\/11\/world-diabetes-day.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7954\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong>World Diabetes Day (WDD)<\/strong>&nbsp;was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61\/225. It is marked every year on&nbsp;<strong>14 November<\/strong>, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>WDD is the world\u2019s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. The campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in the public and political spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>The World Diabetes Day campaign aims to be the:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Platform to promote IDF advocacy efforts throughout the year.<\/li>\n<li>Global driver to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The campaign is represented by a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/worlddiabetesday.org\/resources\/wdd-2019\/logo\/\">blue circle logo<\/a>&nbsp;that was adopted in 2007 after the passage of the UN Resolution on diabetes. The blue circle is the global symbol for diabetes awareness. It signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the World Diabetes Day campaign focuses on a dedicated theme that runs for one or more years. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is&nbsp;<strong>Access to Diabetes Care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Access more information at the website <a href=\"https:\/\/worlddiabetesday.org\/\">https:\/\/worlddiabetesday.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Library collections contain print and online resources on the topic of diabetes. Resources can be found by searching in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lshtm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=44HYG_INST:44HYG_VU1\">Library\u2019s search tool,&nbsp;Discover<\/a>. Print books on these subjects can be found in the Reading Room, shelf mark UQI. A selection of books from this section are on display in the Library\u2019s Reading Room. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blogs.lshtm,ac.uk\/library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Diabetes Day World Diabetes Day (WDD)&nbsp;was created in 1991 by IDF and the World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Diabetes Day 14\/11\/22 - Library, Archive &amp; Open Research Services blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2022\/11\/11\/world-diabetes-day-14-11-22\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Diabetes Day 14\/11\/22 - Library, Archive &amp; 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