The International Diabetes Federation held the 20th World Diabetes Congress (WDC) in Montreal, Canada on 18-22 October 2009. The WDC is an ideal opportunity for all diabetes stakeholders to connect in person and exchange state-of-the-art knowledge. The 19th WDC was held in Cape Town in 2006, which was attended by over 12,000 participants.
The Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka was in charge of organising the Living with Diabetes Stream of the WDC, which included the following topics below.
- Adequate nutrition: prenatal and postnatal – vital (Symposium)
- Aetiology of Type 2 Diabetes - genetics vs environment (Debate)
- Alternative medicine: its role and practice (Workshop)
- Awareness and education through skits/song/dance/mime (Open Forum)
- Camping: positives and negatives (Workshop)
- Celebrating Diabetes (Speakers' Corner)
- Dealing with diabetes through narration (Workshop)
- Diabetes and disasters: natural and man-made (Symposium)
- Diabetes online (Speakers' Corner)
- Diabetes x 4 - its just a way of life (Open Forum)
- Discrimination and Diabetes (Open Forum)
- Empowering youth with Diabetes (Teaching Lecture)
- Exercise in prevention and management (Symposium)
- Food and Diabetes: what’s the fuss? (Open Forum)
- Future of Type 1 diabetes: does technology hold the key? (Teaching Lecture)
- Gestational diabetes (Symposium)
- Handicap in golf: is vision essential? (Speakers' Corner)
- Healthy lifestyle - diet vs exercise (Debate)
- Hypoglycaemia - Causes and solutions (Speakers' Corner)
- Insulin for all: can we make it a reality? (Workshop)
- Interaction of aetiological factors in Type 2 Diabetes - key to prevention? (Symposium)
- Living with diabetes and its complications:
perspective of someone with diabetes (Open Forum)
- Living with diabetes: a family approach (Speakers' Corner)
- Living with someone with diabetes: challenges and solutions (Open Forum)
- Music as a medium of communication (Open Forum)
- New technologies in the management of Diabetes (Symposium)
- Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes and CVD – Diabesity (Teaching Lecture)
- Primary prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: drugs vs lifestyle (Symposium)
- Psychological stress: cause and effect (Teaching Lecture)
- Stress: the critical factor in Type 2 Diabetes? (Symposium)
- To D or not to D: Vitamin D and cardiovascular risk in diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease (Debate)
- Transitional care – adolescence to adulthood (Open Forum)
- Turning diabetes to my advantage (Speakers' Corner)
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