Diabetes Projects

US/Mexico Border Diabetes Prevention and Control Project

The United States and Mexico Border Diabetes Prevention and Control Project involves four United States and six Mexican states along the border. State-based diabetes prevention and control programs are collaborating with the Mexican states and the Mexico Department of Health Ministry to devise and implement strategies to reduce the burden of diabetes among people who live along the border. Diabetes program representatives for all 10 U.S. and Mexican states met in August 1998 in Juarez, Mexico, to agree on the protocols to conduct a household diabetes surveillance study along the U.S./Mexico border. The group held three other meetings, and many conference calls, to draft a proposal to request funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Minority Health, the Office of International and Refugee Health, and the Pan American Health Organization (through the U.S./Mexico Border Health Association).

February 21, 2001
CDC, PAHO create cross-border initiative to address U.S./Mexico diabetes epidemic

Pan American Health Organization Diabetes Project*

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This page last reviewed July 12, 2004.

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