Our Commitment

a-Promote research on the factors causing diabetes mellitus.

b-encourage studies aimed at better diagnosis of the disease and its consequences.

c-develop health education programs in terms of preventing vascular complications of diabetes.

d-Collaborate with national, provincial and municipal governments in several actions aimed at preventing diabetes.

e-emphasize food programs, gymnastics, sports cars and diabetes health education as cornerstones of treatment of the condition.

f-Spread by the media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, Internet) forms of detection and prevention of acute and chronic complications of diabetes.

g-promote campaigns in order to achieve a better quality of life, grounded in the methodology to educate the sovereign.

h-Promote the organization of conferences, symposia and training courses at the municipal, provincial and national levels to bring into being a widespread preventive purposes of the condition.

i-agreements with national and international institutions, public and private, that contribute to summon the will and implement scientific research on diabetes, with financial support, efforts to secure and implement advanced technologies.

j-Achieving cooperative scientific and educational centers, domestic and foreign, to get the tools to make future health policy.

k-grant awards and grants to institutions or individuals distinguished by their merit and dedication to study and research, requiring moral or economic stimulus, as well as conferring honors those who contribute their thoughts or their actions to the common good of the purposes contained herein.

l-Hold all acts and develop cultural, artistic, recreational, sports and tourism directly or indirectly enable the proper discharge of the purposes set forth therein.

m-negotiate agreements with other foundations, related or unrelated to health, to carry out its purposes.

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Diabetes Mellitus represents the paradigm of a chronic and crippling disease which spreads as a world epidemic and is more frequently detectable as the people age level grows higher, their life style changes and scientific knowledge advances. In Argentina it affects an estimated 3 million people and half of them are not aware of it.

Even if it predominates within the older age social group, we can observe an increase in both children and teenagers. It progresses together with the growth of conditions favoring malnutrition and sedentarianism. Diabetes takes first place as the cause of blindness, non traumatic amputation, terminal renal insufficiency (dialysis patients) and sexual impotence.

Also this disease absorbs a disproportioned amount from the Healthcare budgets due to high direct (professional care), indirect (handicap, pensions and premature death) and intangible (suffering, psycho- social transcendence) costs.

The Future

Good news come together with the research done in the last decade of the 20th century which show the feasibility of an efficient interventions in every level to significantly reduce the disease incidence and its consequences.

Works like DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Tests) and UKPDS (United Kindom Prospective Diabetes Study) show that there exists a direct relation between the metabolic control degree (blood glucose level) and the risk of long-term complications in both insulin-dependent and non dependent diabetics.

The challenge is, therefore, the efficient search and use of new tools in the areas of education, research and community aid tending to change conditioning factors and to prevent those factors which give rise to Diabetes Mellitus and its complications. This is the reason for the existence of VIDI Foundation.

OUR PROPOSAL

Educational talks for the community, Lectures in schools and universities. Courses for Healthcare professionals. Campaigns to detect both Diabetes and risk factors. Training workshops for Healthcare agents. Advertising of activities through the media. Working together with complementary associations and programs. Creation of national and International chapters. These are same of the tools which VIDI Foundation considers adequate to carry out its ends.

VIDI Foundation is oriented to favor both health and the quality of life of people with Diabetes Mellitus and their immediate environment. It offers reciprocal relationships and is asking for the participation of the community.

LAPDI: Argentine League For The Protection Of Diabetic People is a non-profit association endorsed by Nobel Prizes Dr Bernardo A. Houssay and Dr. Luis F. Leloir and by the Diabetes Argentine Society (SAD) since it was founded on 1966

Datos Mundiales acerca de la diabetes publicados por la Federación Internacional de la Diabetes.
Para tomar conciencia.

• 366 millones de personas tienen diabetes en el año 2011, en ​​el año 2030 aumentará a 552 millones.

• El número de personas con diabetes tipo 2 diabetes está aumentando en todos los países.

• 80% de las personas con diabetes viven en países de bajos y medianos ingresos.

• El mayor número de personas con diabetes tienen entre 40 a 59 años de edad.

• 183 millones de personas (50%) con diabetes están sin diagnosticar.

• La diabetes causa 4,6 millones de defunciones en 2011.

• La diabetes causada por lo menos USD 465 millones de dólares en gastos de salud en 2011; el 11% de los gastos sanitarios totales en los adultos (20-79 años).

• 78.000 niños desarrollan diabetes tipo 1 cada año.