An excellent interview by Diabetes Alliance chairperson Patrick Ngassa Piotie, MD, PhD, about the necessity for diabetes to be recognised as a leading cause of death in South Africa. The time for action is now! https://lnkd.in/dtN8H_6m #diabetesza #diabetes #women #southafrica
Sweet Life Diabetes Community
Non-profit Organizations
Hout Bay, Western Cape 1,814 followers
Sweet Life is an inspiring community for South Africans with Diabetes. As a PBO, we empower people with diabetes in SA.
About us
Sweet Life is an inspiring community for South Africans with Diabetes. We are a registered PBO with a single focus: to empower people with diabetes in SA. Sweet Life is a diabetes community that informs, inspires and connects people with diabetes in South Africa. We are here to offer reliable advice on all you need to know about diabetes, support people with diabetes and share that just because you have diabetes, doesn’t mean you can’t live a happy, healthy life. As a registered NPO/PBO (220-984), our mission is to solve diabetes education in SA, empower people with diabetes, and bring diabetes into the spotlight. We have a specific focus on health education materials, and how to create meaningful, delightful diabetes education. Working with the Diabetes Alliance, we intend to create basic building blocks of diabetes information that every person with diabetes in South Africa will understand, and action. By working directly with people with diabetes in South Africa, we are able to get a better understanding of the current status of diabetes in SA. And work to fix it.
- Website
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http://www.sweetlife.org.za
External link for Sweet Life Diabetes Community
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Hout Bay, Western Cape
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2011
- Specialties
- Health communication, Social media, Diabetes, Publishing, and Online community
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Primary
8 Empire Ave
Hout Bay, Western Cape 7806, ZA
Employees at Sweet Life Diabetes Community
Updates
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Delighted to share some good news about the insulin situation in South Africa for a change! Take a look at the below article: Sanofi has been awarded a 3 year tender to provide Optisulin (analogue long-acting insulin) pens for vulnerable people with diabetes in state care: kids, the elderly, the visually impaired and those with arthritis. They've dropped the price of their pens to match the previous human insulin pens being provided, which is a big step in the right direction! While this doesn't solve the rapid-acting insulin issue, and it's only for vulnerable people with diabetes, it will be a big relief to our community of South Africans with diabetes... https://lnkd.in/ddK_HUdS #diabetes #diabetesza #insulin #insulin4all SA Diabetes Advocacy Patrick Ngassa Piotie, MD, PhD Catherine Tomlinson
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One of Sweet Life's goals is to bring diabetes into the media more. This superb article by Catherine Tomlinson is exactly what we need more of! Read it for a succinct and thoughtful analysis of the current diabetes situation in South Africa. #diabetes #diabetesza #ncds #diabetescare
Chairperson Diabetes Alliance South Africa | Co-Founder University of Pretoria Diabetes Research Centre | Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellow | World Heart Federation Emerging Leader | English/French
🚨 In the Spotlight: Diabetes in South Africa 🚨 Poorly controlled #diabetes is the leading cause of death in South Africa, yet it often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. This powerful article by Spotlight NSP, authored by Catherine Tomlinson, sheds light on the critical issue of diabetes management and the urgent need for improved care and prevention strategies. 👉 Read the Full Article Here: https://lnkd.in/g2eMt2Hh The article strongly supports the recommendations from our recently released 2023 Diabetes Summit Report, emphasizing the need for systemic changes in diabetes care. As we continue our work with the Diabetes Alliance, this article reinforces the importance of our collective efforts to combat this chronic condition. Now, more than ever, it's time to take diabetes seriously and push for the implementation of these critical recommendations. #DiabetesCare #PublicHealth #NCDs #SouthAfrica #HealthEquity #DiabetesAwareness Amanda Mashego Bridget McNulty Paul Rheeder Michelle Carrihill
#InTheSpotlight | Poorly controlled diabetes is a top killer, time to take it more seriously
https://www.spotlightnsp.co.za
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Every month our co-founder Bridget McNulty writes something personal about her diabetes journey... This month, it's all about how to cope with diabetes in winter (it's a challenge!) https://lnkd.in/daKDk4ej #diabetes #diabetesza #livedexperience
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The Comrades Marathon is a grueling ultra-marathon run once a year. Diabetes is a grueling ultra-marathon run every day 😜 That's why it is so heartening to see South African endocrinologist Joel Dave running the Comrades in support of SA Diabetes Advocacy! Find out more below - we couldn't love this initiative more! 🏃♂️ #diabetes #diabetesza #comrades24 #fundraising
Endocrinologist, Dr Joel Dave, will be running 85.91km this weekend at the Comrades Marathon in support of SA Diabetes Advocacy. If you would like to donate to the cause, please visit https://lnkd.in/gCB2Be3A #diabetes #diabetesadvocacy #diabetessouthafrica
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We often mention the terrifying stat that diabetes kills more women than anything else in South Africa. The latest mortality report shows that actually, in 2020, diabetes killed more men AND women than anything except COVID which, given that it was 2020, makes sense. What will the 2023 results show? Nothing better, unless we do something drastically different. Diabetes. Needs. Attention. You can read the full report from Stats SA here: https://lnkd.in/djjFX5cX #diabetes #mortality #diabetesza #covid #diabetesstats
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Spotlight does it again with this superb article written by Catherine Tomlinson on one of the most urgent issues facing diabetes in South Africa today: We. Have. No. Data. Please give it a read, and share widely! Insights provided by Percept, Patrick Ngassa Piotie, MD, MPH, PhD, Muzzammil Ismail, Bilqees Sayed, Sandhya Singh, Mzi Gcukumana, Diabetes Alliance, University Of Pretoria Diabetes Research Centre and our own Bridget McNulty. #diabetes #diabetesza #diabetestargets #diabetesdata #data #diabetesregistry https://lnkd.in/dxRUQfnr
#InTheSpotlight | Diabetes is a leading killer in SA - yet we don’t know who has it or where they are
https://www.spotlightnsp.co.za
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A year ago, we launched South Africa's first (free!) diabetes stock image library. (Maybe a world-first, but we didn't dig too deep to find out!) You can check it out at https://lnkd.in/d32_6N-P All the images are of people living with diabetes, doing diabetes things, tagged with every available diabetes keyword, as well as all the usual keywords. The goal is that people searching for diabetes imagery will see positive, inspiring images rather than plates of sugar and sad, unhealthy people (the only free options before this.) We hoped it would resonate. The numbers suggest it has 😉 In 1 year, our images have been viewed 9,158,586 times, and downloaded 47,566 times. It's all about the views, for us, because what we want to do is change people's perceptions of what a person with diabetes looks like. To break down diabetes stigma, one image at a time. What a thing! We are so proud. #diabetes #diabetesza #diabeteslookslikeme #diabetesstigma #languagematters
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Absolutely thrilled and delighted to report that our crowdfunding campaign for the Sweet Life chatbot was a success! 🙌 Huge thanks to all those who contributed, and most especially to Diabetes Center Berne for their continuing support for diabetes innovation. We are so excited to see where the rest of the year takes us, now that we have this essential chunk of funding. Thank you for your belief in our ability to help South Africans with Diabetes! 🚀 #crowdfunding #diabetes #diabetesinnovation #diabetesza #wemakeit #wemadeit #whatsapp #chatbot
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One day to go! Please check out our crowdfunding campaign below, and donate if you can!
⏳ Only one day left to join our crowdfunding and make a change for Sweet Life Diabetes Community! 💡 Sweet Life is building an innovative WhatsApp chatbot to tackle the disparities in diabetes education in South Africa. Bridget McNulty entered our 2023 Innovation Challenge with the "Africa Diabetes Chat" project and we're so happy to keep collaborating to make more impact! ➡ Donate now and help us achieve the goal: https://lnkd.in/e2d7QsCu #diabetes #type1diabetes #type2diabetes #DiabetesTechnology #DiabetesCommunity #DiabetesInnovation #SouthAfrica #DiabetesAwareness #CommunityImpact #Crowdfunding #wemakeit #CrowdfundingSuccess #CommunityImpact #SocialImpact
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