IDF member since
2000
Number of members
300
Address
Calle Victor Estremadoyro 129, Piso 1, Urb Las Dalias, San Borja, Lima, Lima, Lima 15021, Peru

About

The Asociación de Diabetes Juvenil del Perú (Juvenile Diabetes Association of Peru) is a non-profit association made up of doctors, educators, psychologists and people living with diabetes. It was created in 1990 under the leadership of Mrs Martha Mora de Garcia Belaúnde.

Main Focus

  • Training and awareness-raising activities on type 1 diabetes for primary care professionals and health promoters
  • Activities with children and young people with type 1 diabetes, their parents and guardians
  • Training activities for physicians

Activities

  • Changing Diabetes in Children Programme
  • Education for children, adolescents and adults with type 1 diabetes, parents and guardians
  • Celebration of World Diabetes Day
  • Participation in the promulgation of the regulation of the law for the protection of people with Diabetes, 23 May 2023
  • Participation with the technical team of the Ministry of Health in the development of policies for people with type 1 diabetes
  • Participation in IDF SACA Region activities

Message from the President

In Peru and around the world there are thousands of children and adolescents who do not have access to innovative technology to manage their diabetes, exposing them to serious complications such as brain damage due to hypoglycaemia, cardiovascular or renal disease, as well as chronic complications, with high risk to their lives. We need to unite through the International Diabetes Federation so that all patient organisations together demand from their authorities analogue insulin, glucose monitors such as glucose meters and test strips, continuous glucose monitors and if necessary for some patients with closed loop insulin pumps. No child, young person or adult with type 1 diabetes should die due to lack of access to treatment!