IPA CIS to Participate in Preparation of Unified Clinical Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes

The expert group on the revision of the Draft 2021–2025 CIS Cooperation Program for Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes held a video conference in the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk (Republic of Belarus).

The event was attended by health care experts from the Azerbaijan Republic, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as representatives of the CIS Executive Committee and the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization. The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly was represented at the meeting by Deputy Chairperson of the Russian Diabetes Federation, Chairperson of the St. Petersburg Diabetes Society, Member of the IPA CIS Expert Advisory Board on Public Health Marina Shipulina and Executive Secretary of the IPA CIS Expert Advisory Board on Public Health, Secretary of the IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Social Policy and Human Rights Evgenia Vladimirova.

The meeting was opened by Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation, General Political and Social Problems of the CIS Executive Committee Alexey Sazonov. He stressed the importance of fighting against diabetes in the CIS Countries and the whole world.

Alexey Sazonov said that back in 2008 the governments of the CIS countries signed the Agreement on Cooperation among the CIS Member Nations in Curbing the Spread of Diabetes. This document includes provisions on the development of a long-term CIS Cooperation Program for Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes. This year, the implementation of the Program developed for the period of 2016–2020 is being completed. The document that has become the subject of today's discussion is its logical extension. The draft Agreement and the draft programs were prepared on the proposal of the St. Petersburg Diabetes Society by the Working Group of the IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Social Policy and Human Rights and the IPA CIS Expert Advisory Board on Public Health.

Research Associate of the Department of Endocrinology of the Belarusian State Medical University Natalia Karlovich, presiding over the meeting, recalled that the main objective of the 2021–2025 CIS Cooperation Program for Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes is the implementation of the UN General Assembly Resolution 61/225 adopted on 20 December 2006 and the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases.

Head of the Department of Endocrinology of the Belarusian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education Larisa Danilova has proposed to draft the Clinical Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes and to include them into the Program.

Commenting on this proposal, Marina Shipulina emphasized the need to present a unified approach in the Guidelines, so that the Guidelines could be used by all Commonwealth countries to the necessary extent.

As a result of the meeting, it was decided to include into the 2021–2025 CIS Cooperation Program for Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes a provision on the preparation of the Unified Clinical Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes. The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, which has wide experience in developing model laws and other documents in the field of healthcare, was included in the list of participants involved in the preparatory process.