Diabetes is on the rise globally. Since the 1980s the number of people living with the disease has quadrupled from 108 million toFor many years, diabetes was considered a disease of affluence and thought to be rare in sub-Saharan Africa. This is no longer the case. TodayAvailable research on diabetes in Liberia excludes people's voices and stories. It is not rooted in people's lived experiences. As a result, the research findings seldom lead to change.
If people like him survive the short-term consequences of hunger, repeated experiences of hunger can also place people living with diabetes at risk for long-term consequences such as It was not always possible to adhere to these recommendations as foods like bulgur wheat and green plantain were far more expensive.and management of diabetes. This makes it very difficult, for example, to get basic diabetes care such as testing, medication and diabetes education.
Sometimes at the hospital, they don't have all the medicine. Yeah, so the whole frustrating part is when you get there, and the medicine not there, you have to pay for your prescription. With the prescription, he can just write it for me, and I will try to get it, because I want to be treated. They give you prescription, then you go to the drug store.