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Written Care Plans
Create comprehensive Diabetes Medical Management Plans and Individualized Education Programs to provide fair treatment for students with diabetes.
Advocacy Overview
Find out how our advocacy supports diabetes research funding, health care access. Become an advocate and help us ensure a bright future for those living with diabetes.
Get Involved With the Amputation Prevention Alliance
Help eradicate unnecessary diabetes-related amputations and raise awareness. Join the American Diabetes Association's Amputation Prevention Alliance and make a difference.
Sexual Health
Learn the impact of diabetes on your sex life and learn how to maintain a healthy sexual health. Find solutions and support for sex and diabetes complications.
For Caregivers
Finding out a loved one has diabetes can be difficult. You want to be there for them, but you may not know how. Discover how you can support your loved ones with diabetes.
The History of a Wonderful Thing We Call Insulin
Since the dawn of time, we have searched for ways to make life easier for us. The modern age has given us some amazing technological advances—what we would do without the internet, our iPhones or high-speed travel? For many people, surviving life without these things sounds rough. However, if you have diabetes, no doubt you’re also a big fan of one particular 20 th -century discovery: insulin. Before insulin was discovered in 1921, people with diabetes didn’t live for long; there wasn’t much doctors could do for them. The most effective treatment was to put patients with diabetes on very
Meet ADA Advocacy Staff: Stephen Habbe
Stephen Habbe is the Director of State Government Affairs covering states in the Northeast including Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Prior to joining the ADA, Stephen worked in the Massachusetts Senate where he had the opportunity to collaborate with the ADA on legislation aimed at improving health insurance coverage for people with diabetes. Stephen says, “working with ADA’s wonderful volunteers to pass laws in support of people with, and at risk for, diabetes, has been immensely rewarding.” Outside of
Give Today and Change lives!
With your support, the American Diabetes Association® can continue our lifesaving work to make breakthroughs in research and provide people with the resources they need to fight diabetes.