Learn about what really matters to people living with diabetes around the world.
Insights, Stories & Perspectives
The #dedoc° blog features articles and opinion pieces written by our international network of diabetes advocates: the #dedoc° voices. From scientific conferences to the latest diabetes research and technology, from challenges faced by those living with diabetes to global disparities in healthcare, our #dedoc° voices cover it all.
Diabetes advocates wishing to contribute to the #dedoc° blog are welcome to submit a guest post using the link below.
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Contact: blog@dedoc.org
A message for #dedoc° voices and the diabetes community
As #dedoc° founder and CEO Bastian Hauck faces terminal cancer, the global diabetes community reflects on his extraordinary impact. Through #dedoc°, Bastian transformed diabetes advocacy by amplifying lived experience, creating the world’s largest diabetes scholarship program of its kind, and ensuring people living with diabetes have a voice in research, policy, and care worldwide under the principle #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs.
End Diabetes Stigma! Why a Global Summit Matters
The Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma brings together people living with diabetes, advocates, healthcare professionals, researchers, and policymakers from around the world to move beyond awareness and toward action. Taking place in Jaipur, India, on March 28–29, 2026, the Summit is designed as a shared space for dialogue, co-creation, and collaboration. With lived experience at its core, it aims to challenge stigma across healthcare, policy, and society, and to build practical, collective solutions to help end diabetes stigma globally. #dedoc° offers 100 travel grants for advocates from LMICs to ensure diverse attendance and impact around the world.