An archive photo
MINSK, 18 March (BelTA) – A meeting of a group of experts to finalize the draft CIS program of cooperation in prevention and treatment of diabetes for 2021-2025 is held in the CIS headquarters in Minsk, BelTA has learned from the press service of the CIS.
The document was developed by the CIS Expert Council on diabetes issues with the participation of representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Russia, Tajikistan, CIS Interparliamentary Assembly and the WHO Regional Office. Among the major aims of the draft program is the consistent implementation of the provisions of the UN General Assembly resolution of 20 December 2006 on diabetes. The draft program also aims to unite efforts of the CIS countries in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) 2013-2020. Plans are in place to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by a third by 2030. The capacities of the CIS countries, the economic features and the statistics indicators of the diabetes situation were also taken into account as the document was drawn up.
The major activities of the program are focused on the early diabetes detection, effective treatment using advanced diagnostics, the introduction of the up-to-date medical technologies and the guarantees of providing the high-quality insulin, the means of insulin administration, the tableted antihyperglycemic medicine and self-control means to patients. Plans are in place to improve diabetes prevention methods and carry out sanitary and educational work among people and to raise the professional knowledge of medical workers of primary outpatient healthcare institutions on early diabetes detection, adequate diagnostics, effective treatment and monitoring of patients with diabetes.
The draft program was approved at a session of the CIS Healthcare Cooperation Council in Dushanbe in November 2019. After the final document approval, it will be submitted to the CIS Heads of Government Council in accordance with the established procedure.
