The NGO Santé Diabète acts
ON THE GROUNDS FOR ACCESS
TO CARE FOR DIABETICS
IN AFRICA AND TO FIGHT
AGAINST DIABETES IN THE WORLD

Santé Diabète is a non-governmental organization founded in 2001 to address the lack of access to care for people with diabetes in Africa and the lack of consideration of this health emergency by development actors.

For the past 15 years, Santé Diabète has been working in the field every day to save lives through better prevention and management of diabetes and to improve the quality of life for people living with this chronic disease while alerting the international community to the challenges diabetes today responsible for one death every 6 seconds in the world.

Initially present in Mali, Santé Diabète then developed its actions in Burkina Faso, Comoros and France (headquarters of the association) with permanent teams in each country and a network of more than 200 local, regional and international partners.

Who are we ?
TO ACT

Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease that is defined by an excessively high blood sugar level. 425 million people live with diabetes worldwide. It kills 5 million people a year and is growing very fast in Africa.

Santé Diabète in action

To develop strong public policies and sustainably strengthen the health system, the NGO is working with all its partners for better prevention and management of diabetes quality.

TO ACT

Your commitment to us is the guarantee of our independence and our autonomy of action.

Help Santé Diabète to save lives and to improve the management of thousands of diabetic people who has no means to treat themselves.

On the news

New program 2020 - 2023 from the NGO Santé Diabète

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Santé Diabète launches COVID19-Diabetes prevention strategy

COVID-19 and diabetes: optimizing the management of diabetes as a mean of preventing complications related to COVID-19. The NGO Santé Diabète has set up a COVID-19 specific prevention program dedicated to people with diabetes. The available scientific information shows that diabetes does not increase the risk to be infected with COVID-19. On ...

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