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‘Diabetes cases will more than double by 2040 in Africa’

November 14 was the World Diabetes Day. The annual event is the world’s 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. Dr Jean Nepo Utumatwishima (pictured right), a diabetes research fellow with the USA’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH-NIDDK-USA), who is also the current director-general of Ruhengeri Referral Hospital spoke to Healthy Times’ Hudson Kuteesa about the burning issues in Rwanda and Africa in the fight against the disease.
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