World Diabetes Day – 14 days later

Pictures tell global success story

More than 1500 pictures have been submitted through the campaign site this year – over three times more than last year. The pictures tell the global story of a remarkable shared experience.

Is your event featured among the pictures already available? Check out the visual record of World Diabetes Day 2009 (World Diabetes Day Virtual Museum) or Flickr campaign pool.

Did you dress up in blue, light your home, or participate in one of the many activities organized around the world? We want to see how you joined in. Put diabetes in the picture now by submitting your images or by adding your picture to the Flickr campaign pool.

Thank you for all the work you put in to making World Diabetes Day 2009 such a global success. Whatever you did, we hope things went well.

Please let us know if World Diabetes Day was featured on a radio station, TV station or in a newspaper in your area. If you have collected the articles in your local newspaper or magazine that feature World Diabetes Day or recorded your local TV or radio program, please e-mail a copy to media@idf.org or send a copy to:

Kerrita McClaughlyn
International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
166 Chaussée de la Hulpe
B-1170 Brussels
Belgium

The results so far

Early indications suggest that World Diabetes Day 2009 was a great success. We will share the final results through the website once we have collected and analyzed all the information. Here's what we know so far:

• 1015 and counting - the number of buildings and monuments that brought diabetes to light this year.
• 603 and counting – the number of events registered this year.
• 113 and counting - the number of countries that recorded events this year.
• 1700 and counting - the number of pictures submitted to the campaign website.
• 225,000 - the number of times the virtual candle has been lit.
• 11,000,000 - the number of views of World Diabetes Day Web banners since January.
• 4500 – the number of sites that generated visitors to www.worlddiabetesday.org.

Uncountable – the debt of gratitude owed to the millions who took part.

Have your say, take our survey

Have you got 10 minutes to spare? Let us know how we can do better. Please take our World Diabetes Day survey now.

We aim to improve what we do and serve you better. Do you have an idea for what World Diabetes Day should do next? What changes would you like to see? Do you feel that things can be improved? Whatever you want to say, please share it with us.

We take your comments seriously. Your feedback informs what we do.

The World diabetes Day campaign continues...

World Diabetes Day doesn't end on November 14. The current campaign covers the five-year period up to 2013. The aims are to improve access to diabetes care and education, to increase global action to prevent diabetes and its complications, and encourage participation in diabetes advocacy worldwide. Please send us information on what you and your organization are doing to support these aims. We'll share your campaigns through our website.

You can interact with the World Diabetes Day team through our Facebook Group: World Diabetes Day 2009-2013. Please share your ideas for 2010.

UN Resolution 61/225 invites: "all Member States, relevant organizations of the United Nations system and other international organizations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to observe World Diabetes Day in an appropriate manner, in order to raise public awareness of diabetes and related complications, as well as its prevention and care, including through education and the mass media."

Please remind local and national authorities that they have 350 days to get ready for World Diabetes Day 2010. Download the World Diabetes Day Resolution.

Thank you everyone who took part in World Diabetes Day 2009. We look forward to working with you to make 2010 and even greater success.