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DIABETES
FACT SHEETS LAUNCHED IN SIX ETHNIC LANGUAGES
(5 March 2004)
 Diabetes
UK today launched free fact sheets and new website pages for people
from black and minority ethnic communities. The information is available
in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Cantonese and English.
"People from black and minority ethic communities are more
likely to have diabetes yet they are less likely to be able to get
information about how to deal with it. Producing these fact sheets
and putting them in the community will hopefully start to put this
problem right." said Suzanne Lucas, Diabetes UK Director of
Research.
People
of ethnic origin are up to 6 times more likely to develop diabetes.
The fact sheets have been produced to provide culturally specific
core information on diabetes. The six sheets cover 'What is diabetes?',
'Healthy lifestyle', 'Fasting and diabetes', 'How Diabetes UK can
help you', 'Diabetic complications' and 'Hypoglycaemia'.
The
fact sheets will be sent to 2000 community and religious organisations,
and can be downloaded from the Diabetes UK website at www.diabetes.org.uk
or ordered by calling 0800 585 088.
The
fact sheets have been funded by FEXCO MT, the UK representative
for Western Union Money Transfer, and pharmaceutical company Eli
Lilly. Jeff Smith, from the Corporate Affairs team at Eli Lilly
said, "Lilly is pleased to support this project, which is indicative
of Diabetes UK's valued commitment to meet the needs of all patients
with diabetes in the UK."
The
Diabetes UK Careline, on 0845 120 2960, provides advice and information
on diabetes. A translation service for up to 100 languages is available.
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