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Table 1 Overview of projects

From: Health system and societal barriers for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) services - lessons from World Diabetes Foundation supported GDM projects

Country

Project title

Implementing partner

Collaborating partners

India, Tamil Nadu

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus – Awareness Creation, Prevention and Control in the Community

Dr. V. Seshiah Diabetes Care and Research Institute

Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Tamil Nadu; The Municipal Corporation of Chennai; Local NGOs and women’s self help groups

Cuba

Completion of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Services Network in all the provincial capitals in Cuba

Instituto Nacional de Endocrinología; Hospital Ginecobstétrico “Ramón Glez. Coro”.

The Maternity and Infant Program; the National Group of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; the National Group of Endocrinology; the National Committee on Diabetes and Pregnancy.

Sudan

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Control Project

Sudan Fertility care Association

UNFPA Sudan Country Office; Federal Ministry of Health

Cameroon

Improving screening, management, and outcome of gestational diabetes in urban and rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle

Cameroon Burden of Diabetes Project; Ministry of Health

India, Tamil Nadu

Extension of project on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus – Awareness Creation, Prevention and Control in the Community

Dr. V. Seshiah Diabetes Care and Research Institute

Centre for Health Education and Development; Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Government of Tamil Nadu

India, Karnataka

Addressing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in a rural and tribal Population of Mysore District, India

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

Prashasa Health Consultants Pvt Ltd

Jamaica/Panama

Strengthening Diagnosis and Treatment of Gestational Diabetes through Reinforced Maternal and Child Health Services

International Centre for Migration, Health and Development

Ministry of Health of Panama; Ministry of Health of Jamaica

Kenya (National Programme)

Mainstreaming Comprehensive Diabetes Care in Kenya

Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation; The Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre

The Kenya Diabetes Association; the Kenya Diabetes Study Group; Kenya Diabetes Educators; the World Health Organization

India, Delhi, Jharkand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh

A Multi Media Approach for Awareness Generation on Gestational Diabetes and it’s Management in selected districts of India

Jagran Pehel

Jagran Prakashan Limited; local government health departments; Indian Medical Association; Lions Club; Rotary International; Private health care facilities.

China

China GDM centers – establishment and training dissemination

Peking University First Hospital

Ministry of Health of China; Novo Nordisk (China)

India, Punjab

Gestational Diabetes in Punjab

Deep Hospital

Jagran Pehel; Sri Rama Charitable Hospital; Iqbal Hospital; Novo Nordisk; Steno Diabetes Center; Health Strategies International; Government Medical Colleges in Patiala, Amritsar and Faridkot; Municipal Corporation in Ludhiana; Department of Health and Family Welfare in Ludhiana; Copenhagen University; University of California, San Francisco.