November 14 2003 marks the fourteenth annual World Diabetes Day. Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects people of all ages in all areas of the world. Inadequate care can lead to serious health complications such as blindness, kidney failure, neuropathy (degeneration of nerves and nervous system), amputation, heart attacks and death.

This date was designated World Diabetes Day as it was the birthday of Frederick Banting who, in collaboration with Charles Best, discovered insulin in October 1921.

For World Diabetes Day 2003 the IIF's Press Release describes the lives of two children with Type 1 diabetes.

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