World Diabetes Day can be referred as a global campaign for the awareness of Diabetes and its prevention modes. The day was began to initiate after the recommendations of WHO (World Health Organization) and IDF (International Diabetes Federation) in 1991 to respond the alarming increase of diabetes all around the world.
World Diabetes Day raises a public awareness for the increasing graph of Diabetes all around the globe. It is celebrated world wide with a particular theme each year that related to diabetes. These themes based on various issues related to diabetes like, diabetes and human rights, lifestyle, diabetes and its disadvantages etc. The day also signifies the birth day of Frederick Banting whose role was instrumental in the discovery of insulin in 1922, a life-saving treatment for diabetes patients.