National Changing Diabetes programme

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National Changing Diabetes® programme

Novo Nordisk's National Changing Diabetes® programme (NCDP) aims to improve standards of diabetes care in both developed and developing countries. A top priority is to get diabetes on the public health agenda in order to drive earlier diagnosis and treatment.

The NCDP helps build national healthcare capacity and develop national disease strategies based on partnerships with various stakeholders. The programme is spearheaded by Novo Nordisk through its affiliates. Activities include educating nurses, doctors and patients, supporting diabetes patient organisations, equipping diabetes clinics, and working with governments.

Performance 2008

A measure of the company’s contribution to global health is the number of healthcare professionals directly trained, educated, interacted with or reached through awareness campaigns, and the number of people with diabetes targeted with training, awareness or treatment. The aim is to continue activities to educate healthcare professionals and to train and treat people with diabetes. Since 2002, 380,000 healthcare professionals have been trained or educated and 1,854,000 people with diabetes have been trained or treated.

Here are some examples of Changing Diabetes® activities spearheaded by Novo Nordisk affiliates around the world.

Cameroon

• Educational activities for healthcare professionals
• Lunch of diabetes registry for data collection and to improve insight into the realities of diabetes

Guinea-Conakry

• Support to the national diabetes association
• Assistance with opening of new diabetes clinics funded by WDF
• Donation of multiple energy source refrigerators for insulin storage

Tanzania

• Decision to open scientific office that will further promote collaboration with public institutions on education of healthcare providers

Nigeria

• Co-sponsered a congress in Lagos in September 2008 with the purpose of raising awareness of diabetes and its consequences among policy makers.

India

• A project was started with partners in Trivandrum, Kerala in India to analyse their data set from a migration angle. The preliminary findings are that migrants have double as high prevalence compared to Indian staying in Kerala.

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