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World Diabetes Foundation

Health equity in humanitarian settings: WDF and UNHCR’s partnership

Burundi

19 Aug 2025

After three years of targeted efforts, the first phase of the partnership between the World Diabetes Foundation and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has now been completed.The collaboration has delivered strong results in preventing, diagnosing, and treating non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and mental health disorders among displaced people and host communities in Tanzania,...

19 Aug 2025

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UNHCR, World Diabetes Foundation

Elderly Refugee Couple benefit from Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs) - Project

United Republic of Tanzania

08 May 2024

Community sensitization, mobilization and early diagnosis is saving lives of non-communicable disease refugee patients specifically diabetes in Tanzania.

08 May 2024

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