The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is committed to facilitating the national implementation of the KiDS programme in schools to improve the lives of children living with type 1 diabetes, prevent diabetes-related stigma and promote healthy habits to tackle the preventable risk factors of type 2 diabetes.
IDF collaborates with its national members and partner organisations, such as the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), to encourage decision-makers to implement the KiDS programme and leverages key dates to promote its activities and resources.
Last update: 07/03/2022
KiDS advocacy campaigns in 2021
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International Education Day
In January 20221, on the occasion of International Education Day, IDF and ISPAD, with the support of IDF Members and ISPAD collaborators, sent letters requesting the national implementation of KiDS to Ministers of Health and Education in 19 countries.
The letters highlighted how KiDS can:
- Improve diabetes knowledge in the school environment among students and school staff
- Improve understanding of the needs of students living with type 1 diabetes
- Help foster a safe and supportive school environment
- Protect children and adolescents living with type 1 diabetes from stigma
- Support efforts to prevent type 2 diabetes by including education on nutrition and healthy lifestyles in national school curricula
The campaign targeted the following countries:
- Argentina: co-signed by Asociación para el Cuidado de la Diabetes en Argentina - CUI.D.AR (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Bangladesh: co-signed by the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (letter to the Minister of Health)
- Brazil: co-signed by Associação de Diabetes Juvenil, Sociedade Brasileira de Diabetes and Federação Nacional de Associações e Entitades de Diabetes Sociedad Brasileira de Diabetes (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Democratic Republic of Congo: co-signed by the Association des Diabetiques du Congo (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Egypt: co-signed by Prof Mona Abdelkader Salem (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Germany: co-signed by diabetesDE and Prof Thomas Danne (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- India: co-signed by the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Iran: co-signed by Gabric (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Health)
- Japan: co-signed by the Japan Association for Diabetes Education and Care, the Japan Diabetes Society and Prof Tatsuhiko Urakami (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Lebanon: co-signed by the Lebanese Diabetes Society, Chronic Care Center and DiaLeb (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Mexico: co-signed by the Federación Mexicana de Diabetes (letter to the Secretary of Health / letter to the Secretary of Education)
- Morocco: co-signed by the Ligue Marocaine de la Lutte contre le Diabète (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Nigeria: co-signed by the Diabetes Association of Nigeria and Prof Abiola Oduwole (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Pakistan: co-signed by the Diabetic Association of Pakistan (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Philippines: co-signed by Diabetes Philippines (letter to the Minister of Health Camarines Norte / letter to the Minister of Health Mandulayong / letter to the Minister of Education Camarines Norte / letter to the Minister of Education Mandulayong)
- Poland: co-signed by the Polskie Stowarzyszenie Diabetykow (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Russian Federation: co-signed by the Russian Diabetes Federation (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Spain: co-signed by the Sociedad Española de Diabetes and Dr Roque Cardona-Hernández (letter to the Minister of Health and the Minister of Education)
- Sri Lanka: co-signed by the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Turkey: co-signed by the Turkish Diabetes Foundation (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education
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World Teachers Day
In October, on the occasion of World Teachers Day, IDF and ISPAD, with the support of IDF Members and ISPAD collaborators, sent follow-up letters to Ministers of Health and Education in 17 of the countries that were targeted for the International Education Day campaign.
- Argentina: co-signed by Asociación para el Cuidado de la Diabetes en Argentina - CUI.D.AR (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Argentina: co-signed by Asociación Diabetes Argentina, Federación Argentina de Diabetes, Liga Argentina de Protección al Diabetico and Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes (letter to the Minister of Health / Letter to the Minister of Education)
- Bangladesh: co-signed by the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (letter to the Minister of Health / Letter to the Minister of Education)
- Brazil: co-signed by Associação de Diabetes Juvenil, Sociedade Brasileira de Diabetes and Federação Nacional de Associações e Entitades de Diabetes Sociedad Brasileira de Diabetes (letter to the Minister of Health / Letter to the Minister of Education)
- India: co-signed by the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (letter to the Minister of Health / Letter to the Minister of Education)
- Lebanon: co-signed by DiaLeb (letter to the Minister of Health / Letter to the Minister of Education)
- Morocco: co-signed by the Ligue Marocaine de la Lutte contre le Diabète (letter to the Minister of Health / Letter to the Minister of Education)
- Pakistan: co-signed by the Diabetic Association of Pakistan (letter to the Minister of Health)
- Philippines: co-signed by Diabetes Philippines (letters to the Ministers of Health and Education in Manila, Camarines Norte and Mandulayong)
- Spain: co-signed by the Sociedad Española de Diabetes (letter to the Ministry of Health / Letter to the Ministry of Education)
- Sri Lanka: co-signed by the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka (letter to the Ministry of Health / Letter to the Ministry of Education)
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International Day Against Bullying and Violence in the School Environment
In November, on occasion of the International Day Against Bullying and Violence in the School Environment, IDF and ISPAD, with the support of IDF Members and ISPAD collaborators, sent letters to Ministers of Health and Education in six countries. The letters called decision makers to implement the KiDS programme at the national level to:
- Improve knowledge of diabetes in the school environment among students and school staff
- Improve understanding about the needs of students living with type 1 diabetes to foster a safe and supportive school environment
- Protect children and adolescents living with type 1 diabetes from stigma, and prevent bullying
- Support efforts to prevent type 2 diabetes by including education on nutrition, healthy food choices and healthy lifestyles in national school curricula
The campaign targeted the following countries:
- Austria co-signed by Österreichische Diabetes Gesellschaft (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- Ecuador: co-signed by Fundación Aprendiendo a Vivir con Diabetes, Federación Ecuatoriana de Diabetes, Fundación de Diabetes Juvenil del Ecuador and Fundación Los Fresnos Casa de la Diabetes (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- France: co-signed by Aides aux Jeunes Diabétiques (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education / letter to the Minister of Handicap)
- Republic of Korea: co-signed by the Korean Diabetes Association (letter to the Minister of Education)
- Maldives: co-signed by the Diabetes Society of Maldives (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)
- New Zealand: co-signed by the Diabetes New Zealand (letter to the Minister of Health / letter to the Minister of Education)