World Diabetes Day with the theme: "Education and Prevention"
The day's activities will begin @ 9:00AM with a short program where a presentation will be given on the topic of High Salt Intake and its direct link to hypertension and other non-communicable diseases. This will be given by Mr Kippier Lippwe, FSM's NCD Program Manager. Then mass screening of diabetes and hypertension and dissemination of IEC materials will be carried out for the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon. Immunization updates may also be carried out. To further promote the day's activities, a World Diabetes Day March will organized and begin between 1:30PM-2PM. The first 70 finishers will be given free t'shirts.