The global burden of diabetes has been growing at an alarming rate with theInternational Diabetes Federation declaring India as the country with the highest number of diabetics, 61.3 million in 2011. The projections for 2030 has earned India the dubious title of being the diabetes capital of the world.
The IDF has also documented that 78,000 children develop Type 1 diabetes every year all over the world, and the South-East Asian Region has the highest cases of Type 1 diabetesin children, with about 111,500 already affected. In 2011, an estimated 18,000 children under the age of 15 years developed diabetes in this region, with India accounting for the highest number of type 1 diabetic children in the entire region.
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