04.12.2023
Working together to tackle diabetes
Improving diabetes treatment also involves education and free blood glucose tests, like this one being conducted in Bikita, Zimbabwe. Foto: © SolidarMed

SolidarMed "Diabetes is one of the most common non-communicable diseases worldwide. In Zimbabwe and Lesotho, SolidarMed is working with the World Diabetes Foundation to provide access to diabetes prevention, diagnosis and treatment for people in rural regions. Diabetes causes around two million deaths a year, most of which are in low- and middle income countries. Particularly in rural regions of southern Africa, hospitals and health centres have until now been barely equipped to handle such non-communicable diseases, and so medical care and prevention are virtually non-existent."