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WORLD DIABETES DAY TODAY Source:Dailynews The World Diabetes Day the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus is held today November 14 each year. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2020 is The Nurse and Diabetes. Led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), each World Diabetes Day focuses on a theme related to diabetes; type-2 diabetes is largely preventable and treatable non-communicable disease that is rapidly increasing in numbers worldwide. Type 1 diabetes is not preventable but can be managed with insulin injections. Topics covered have included diabetes and human rights, diabetes and lifestyle, diabetes and obesity, diabetes in the disadvantaged and the vulnerable, and diabetes in children and adolescents. ...