A misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of diabetes can result in the
death of a child with diabetes2.
Changing Diabetes® in Children collaborates with experts
to develop and provide information about diabetes and the management
of paediatric diabetes to healthcare professionals.
2 Munoz C, et al. Clinical diabetes: a publication of the
American Diabetes Association. 2019;37 (3):276–281.
Healthcare professional manual
It is our hope that it will be of great use to all healthcare
professionals working with children and adolescents with diabetes in
developing countries.
The training manual supports education and training on important
type 1 diabetes topics, including:
- Diagnosing type 1 diabetes in children
- Treating type
1 diabetes
- Talking to patients about type 1 diabetes
- The organisation of type 1 diabetes care
Available languages (PDF):
English (3 MB)
French (3 MB)
Hindi (4 MB)
Spanish (18MB)
Nurses’ Guideline booklet
The Nurses’ Guideline booklet shows how to use the diabetes dialogue
posters. Based on advice from practitioners, it is suggested to use
the materials together with the child over a span of visits.
Choose your preferred language and download the guidelines:
Available languages (PDF):
English (18 MB)
French (5 MB)
Swahili (5 MB)
Educational wall posters
The programme’s educational wall posters help to raise
awareness of type 1 diabetes and highlight some of the important
messages about living with type 1 diabetes.
Choose from four different posters:
- What is type 1 diabetes?
- The food pyramid
- The signs of type 1 diabetes
- Where on the body to
inject insulin?
Choose your preferred language and download the wall posters (PDF):
Amharic (4 MB)
English (1 MB)
French (3 MB)
Swahili (1 MB)
Diabetes dialogue poster
The diabetes dialogue poster is aimed for children aged 8-12. The
poster contains a set of 17 dialogue visuals developed for use in a
diabetes clinic to support the conversation between the healthcare
professional, the child and the child's family or guardian.
The poster covers questions like:
- Why do I need insulin?
- How much insulin should I
take
- Where do I inject it? How can I measure my blood
glucose
- What is hypo- and hyperglycaemia?
- How to
recognise them?
Choose your preferred language and download the poster (PDF):
Amharic (6 MB)
English part 1 (4 MB)
English
part 2 (3 MB)
French (6 MB)
Swahili (6 MB)