The International diabetes Federation and International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent diabetes (ISPAD) are proud to annouce the launch of the Global IDF/ISPAD Guideline for diabetes in Childhood and Adolescence.

Approximately 440,000 children around the world have diabetes witth 70,000 new cases diagnosed each year. This very large number of children needs help to survive with injections of insulin to live a full life without restrictions or disabling complications.

It is an outrage that even today, almost a century after the discovery of insulin, the most common cause of death in children with diabetes is lack of access to insulin. Many children die before their diabetes is diagnosed. It is therefore of utmost importance that all forces unite to ensure that no child should die of diabetes.

While there is extensive evidence on the optimal management of type 1 diabetes, it is unfortunate that such care is not reaching many who could benefit. The current guideline has been developed by IDF and ISPAD to help address these issues.

”Despite the challenges presented in developing a guideline that is sensitive to resource and cost-effectiveness issues, we feel that we have found an approach which is at least partially successful in addressing these,” said Professor Stephen Colagiuri, Chair of the IDF Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

We hope the Guideline will be widely consulted and used to:

Improve awareness among governments, state healthcare providers and the general public of the serious long-term implications of poorly managed diabetes and of the essential resources needed for optimal care.

Assist individual care givers in managing children and adolescents with diabetes in a prompt, safe, consistent, equitable, standardised manner in accordance with the current view of experts in the field.

Download the Global IDF/ISPAD Guideline for Diabetes in Childhood and Adolescence.

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