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Global Diabetes Summit 14 April 2021
Diabetes is a global epidemic. Today, approximately 6% of the world’s population – more than 420 million people – live with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. This number has quadrupled since 1980, and is expected to rise beyond half a billion by the end of the decade. While premature mortality from other major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is decreasing, early deaths from diabetes actually increased by 5% between 2000 and 2016.
This past year has been a wake-up call. People living with diabetes are at increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, while diabetes care has been severely disrupted due to the pandemic.
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This first dialogue aims to encourage inputs, commitments, and contributions from the pharmaceutical and health technology product industries to support WHO’s activities to improve access to medicines and health technology products for diabetes, including for the 14 April 2021 launch of the Global Diabetes Compact.
10 global health issues to track in 2021
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2020 was a devastating year for global health. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems. Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care.
In another blow, the pandemic threatens to set back hard-won global health progress achieved over the past two decades - in fighting infectious diseases, for example, and improving maternal and child health.
So in 2021, countries around the world will need to continue battle COVID-19 (albeit with the knowledge that effective tools are evolving). They will need to move swiftly to repair and reinforce their health systems so they can deliver these tools, and to address the key societal and environmental issues that result in some sections of the population suffering so much more than others.