United Nations Resolution For Diabetes

EDM number 77 in 2006-07, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 15/11/2006.

That this House supports the International Diabetes Federation's Unite for Diabetes campaign, which aims to highlight the alarming rise of diabetes worldwide; notes with concern new data showing that more than 230 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and that the number of people living with diabetes is expected to grow to 350 million in less than 20 years if action is not taken; further notes that diabetes is one of the major causes of premature death worldwide, as every 10 seconds a person dies from diabetes-related causes and death rates are predicted to rise by 25 per cent. over the next decade; further notes that World Health Organisation research predicts that the condition could reduce life expectancy globally for the first time in 200 years and that almost six per cent. of the world's adult population now live with diabetes; and encourages Government support for a United Nations Resolution on diabetes, to secure the Resolution on World Diabetes Day on 14th November 2007.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.