These guidelines have been developed by the IDF Life for a Child Programme and ISPAD taking into account resource- and cost-related issues affecting care for children and youth with diabetes in developing countries.
The International Diabetes Federation's Life for a Child (LFAC) Programme supports the provision of the best possible healthcare, given local circumstances, to all children and youth with diabetes in developing countries, through the strengthening of diabetes services in these countries.
This issue focuses attention to the rise in people living with diabetes worldwide and the price we are all paying for diabetes prevention, care and treatment, directly and indirectly.