IDF’s diabetes education initiatives aim to both develop a high-
quality global workforce for diabetes education and care, as
well as provide a broad base of knowledge and skills to people
with diabetes that allow them to facilitate and enhance their
own care. Diabetes education prepares people with diabetes to
make informed decisions, cope with the demands of living daily
with a complex chronic disease and make necessary behaviour
changes. Diabetes Conversations is a global programme that
improves access to group self-management education for people
with diabetes. It has achieved great success to date; in 2011,
the programme was implemented in over 110 countries and
territories and in 35 different languages. The programme
features Conversation Map™ education tools. Health professionals
use these tools to engage people with diabetes in an open and
interactive group discussion to support them in their self-
management efforts. They have been translated and adapted for
each country with input from local experts i