Diabetes educators and healthcare providers are increasingly faced with providing care in a multicultural society, requiring them to be mindful of the traditions and customs among cultural and ethnic groups and to recognize socio-economic challenges that may exist.
Along with their plethora of challenges associated with lack of awareness and financial burden of diabetes, developing countries have another set of often ignored issues: the way diabetes is viewed and treated in society, health care systems and public policy.
UNRWA has been providing diabetes and hypertension care since 1992 in its primary health care centres. Hypertension and diabetes are two major health problems for Palestine refugees.