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Act NowIn July 2020, members of the DPAC Team, alongside DPAC Champion Paul Madden, visited the White House and were able to relay to then-President Trump and other top officials the importance of affordable insulin access. The speech’s international exposure correctly focused on the prohibitive, high price of insulin and prescription drugs and the importance of affordability and access for people with diabetes to increase productivity benefitting theirs and their families’ lives.
In January 2021, as COVID-19 vaccinations began to rollout, the diabetes advocate community was surprised to find that the CDC had not categorized people with T1D as being at an increased risk for complications, potentially resulting in the approximately 1.6 million Americans with T1D receiving the vaccine later than others with similarly research-proven risk levels. In response, DPAC developed a letter-writing campaign which resulted in over 2000 letters being sent to every eligible governor in the US. Come April 2021, the CDC officially included T1D on its list of medical conditions. Together we moved the needle.
In July 2020, members of the DPAC Team, alongside DPAC Champion Paul Madden, visited the White House and were able to relay to then-President Trump and other top officials the importance of affordable insulin access. The speech’s international exposure correctly focused on the prohibitive, high price of insulin and prescription drugs and the importance of affordability and access for people with diabetes to increase productivity benefitting theirs and their families’ lives.
In July 2020, members of the DPAC Team, alongside DPAC Champion Paul Madden, visited the White House and were able to relay to then-President Trump and other top officials the importance of affordable insulin access. The speech’s international exposure correctly focused on the prohibitive, high price of insulin and prescription drugs and the importance of affordability and access for people with diabetes to increase productivity benefitting theirs and their families’ lives.
Every interval, someone in the United States is diagnosed with diabetes
American adults currently have prediabetes, representing over ⅓ of the country’s population
Healthcare dollars are spent on treating diabetes and its complications
Emergency department visits in 2020 as a result of hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic crises
Every interval, someone in the United States is diagnosed with diabetes 88 Million: American adults currently have prediabetes, representing over ⅓ of the country’s population
People worldwide are estimated to have diabetes by 2045 according to the International Diabetes Federation