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World Diabetes Day – November 14
November 15 , 2020
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- It was created in 1991 by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
- It became an official United Nations Day in 2006.
- It marks the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.
- The theme for 2020 is The Nurse and Diabetes.
- The blue circle has been adapted by the IDF to spread the awareness of this dreaded disease.
- On this Day, the WHO announced ‘the Global Diabetes Compact’.
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