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ONLINE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES.
Diabetes Associations
Diabetes mellitus is a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels) resulting from the defective secretion or action of the hormone insulin. There are several kinds of diabetes mellitus, but most are rare. The most common types are:
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diabetes mellitus type 1 (previously called juvenile onset diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus -- IDDM) is characterized by decreased or absent production of insulin
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diabetes type 2 (previously called adult onset diabetes, obesity related diabetes, or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus -- NIDDM), which is characterized by body tissue resistance to insulin action, though decreased secretion of insulin can also occur concomitantly
| Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network |
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Dedicated to improving the health of Indigenous Australians
http://www.indigenoushealth.med.usyd.edu.au
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| American Association of Diabetes Educators |
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Founded in 1973, the American Association of Diabetes Educators is a multi-disciplinary professional membership organization dedicated to promoting the expertise of the diabetes educator, ensuring the delivery of quality diabetes self-management training to the patient and influencing and contributing to the future content and direction of the profession.
http://www.aadenet.org
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| American Diabetes Association |
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The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of communities
http://www.diabetes.org
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| American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad |
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AYUDA strives to raise awareness of and promote sustainable development for diabetes communities throughout the Americas by using youth as agents for change. Our Objectives
- create and strengthen self-sustaining local and national diabetes organizations throughout the Americas
- empower youth with diabetes to develop and lead educational, medical, recreational, and advocacy programs
- increase international awareness of diabetes communities
http://ayudainc.net
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| Children With Diabetes |
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The mission of Children with Diabetes is to promote understanding of the care and treatment of diabetes, especially in children; to increase awareness of the need for unrestricted diabetes care for children at school and daycare; to support families living with diabetes; and to promote understanding of research into a cure.
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com
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| Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation |
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Diabetes Action emphasizes prevention, with initiatives such as school-based health education programs on Native American Reservations and free booklets. Diabetes Action's annual Diabetes University is a free educational program that focuses on alternative treatments for diabetes.
http://www.diabetesaction.org
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Diabetes Australia
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Diabetes Australia is a not-for-profit organisation reliant on community support. All funds raised on behalf of the organisation are re-invested into research, health services, provision of self–management products and services, and public awareness. It offers personalised and practical assistance to benefit people with diabetes and their carers and provides a forum for the development of national policies.
http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au
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| Diabetes Camping Association |
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DCA members are camping and youth leaders, and medical professionals who operate diabetes camps and youth programs around the world. There are more than 160 diabetes camps in North America and another 160 additional camps around the world.
http://www.diabetescamps.org
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| Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust |
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The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT) is a registered charity and was formed in 1994. We are concerned with listening to the needs of people who live with diabetes, understanding those needs and doing our utmost to offer help and support. We not only want to help those who actually have diabetes but also their carers - the husbands, wives, partners and parents, indeed, all of us who 'live with diabetes'. We recognise that when one person in a family has diabetes, all other family members are affected to a greater or lesser extent and they all have views and needs which may be different from the person with diabetes, but nevertheless are important.
The Trust was set up to look at some of the day to day difficulties of living with diabetes, the worries, fears and concerns that perhaps we don't talk about at the hospital clinic- the ones that many of us experience and understand because we actually live with diabetes. As a charity, IDDT has a Board of Trustees and all our Trustees either have diabetes or have family members with diabetes. So we all know first hand that while diabetes doesn't rule our lives, it is an important part of them. It needs care and attention, it can be a nuisance and it is not without it's problems!
The Trust is run entirely by voluntary donations and we do not accept funding from the pharmaceutical industry in order to remain uninfluenced and independent.
http://www.iddtinternational.org
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| International Diabetes Federation |
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The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is the only global advocate for people with diabetes and their healthcare providers. We work together with our member associations to enhance the lives of people with diabetes worldwide. Our mission is to promote diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide. IDF is a non-governmental organization in official relations with the World Health Organization.
http://www.idf.org/
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| International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes |
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http://www.ispad.org |
| Jewish Diabetes Association |
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The JDA instills and teaches the need and capability of living a normal and healthy life of good control, without the fear of complications that can be so devastating to those with diabetes. It is our hope to be able to spread this education to the public at large in order to dispel many of the misconceptions surrounding diabetes. With this education, it is our hope that those with difficulties and or complications will find it easier to turn things around. For those that are, thank G-D, doing well, we would like to see them stay that way and live full, healthy, happy, meaningful lives.
http://www.jewishdiabetes.org
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| Juvenile Diabetes Foundation |
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JDRF is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation.
Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $900 million to diabetes research, including more than $98 million in FY2005. In FY2005, the Foundation funded 500 centers, grants and fellowships in 19 countries.http://www.jdrf.org/
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| Louisiana Diabetes Foundation |
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The mission of the Louisiana Diabetes Foundation is "to protect the Louisiana citizen with diabetes and to improve their physical well-being until diabetes has been eradicated." The Louisiana Diabetes Foundation membership is open to anyone who wishes to support this mission
http://www.louisianadiabetes.org
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| National Diabetes Alliance |
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The mission of the Alliance is to "assist independent and allied diabetes organizations improve the physical and social well-being of persons with diabetes." Membership is open to anyone: individual, corporate, or association, who wish to support this mission.
http://www.diabetesalliance.org
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| World Diabetes Foundation |
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As a part of the WDF future vision the board of the directors have decided to focus and introduce a fifth focus area: The Coming Generation.Based on extensive evaluation of ongoing projects the Foundation realised the existing focus areas did not deal sufficiently with the urgent need to focus on primary prevention of diabetes. In focusing on The Coming Generation, the WDF will promote and include primary prevention in some of its projects and by addressing children, youngsters and adults who have not yet developed risk factors for diabetes and inform them about the risk factors and a healthier lifestyleIn this year??s annual report you can read more about the new fifth focus area along with a wealth of information on both the activities of the Foundation and on the problem of diabetes in general. You will also be introduced for some of the devastating consequences and suffering caused by diabetes and the socio and economic aspect of the disease through our moving patient stories in the developing countries.http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org
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