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World Diabetes Day

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World Diabetes Day, held on 14 November each year since 1991, is the primary global awareness campaign on diabetes mellitus, led by the International Diabetes Federation in partnership with the World Health Organization. Each year's observance is built around a specific theme and addresses the rapid worldwide rise of type 2 diabetes, a largely preventable and treatable noncommunicable disease, through education, screening and thematic public campaigns.

Facts
Launch Year
1991 1
Sponsoring Body
International Diabetes Federation 1
Program status (class)
Ongoing 1
Classification
Program Kind
Screening Program 1
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Delivers Practice

Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.

Sources
1. World Diabetes Day - Wikipedia
  • History section
    World Diabetes Day was launched in 1991
  • Main text
    WDD is led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
  • Wikipedia 'World Diabetes Day': annual global awareness campaign, present tense; checked 2026-09-27.
  • Program classification, entity description sentence
    Each year's observance is built around a specific theme and addresses the rapid worldwide rise of type 2 diabetes, a largely preventable and treatable noncommunicable disease, through education, screening and thematic public campaigns.
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