{"id":29977,"date":"2021-11-13T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/?p=29977"},"modified":"2021-11-13T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T08:44:32","slug":"world-diabetes-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/news-events\/world-diabetes-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"World Diabetes Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Diabetes Day (WDD)<\/strong> was created in 1991 in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 and it is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of <strong>Sir Frederick Banting<\/strong>, who co-discovered insulin along with <strong>Charles Best<\/strong> in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>WDD is the world\u2019s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. The campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in the public and political spotlight. Every year, the World Diabetes Day campaign focuses on a dedicated theme that runs for one or more years. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is <strong>&#8220;Access to Diabetes Care \u2013 If Not Now, When?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1500px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-29977-1\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MVI_3208.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MVI_3208.mp4\">https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MVI_3208.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 and it is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":29978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.si.mahidol.ac.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}