Saudi Diabetes and Endocrine Association
Saudi Diabetes and Endocrine Association (SDEA) is a Saudi charitable organization located in Al-Khobar Governorate in the Eastern Province. It was established in 2005, and it specializes in educating the community, spreading awareness about obesity, diabetes, and prevention methods in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and promoting healthy lifestyles and behaviors.
Goals of SDEA
The association aims to prevent diabetes by educating the community about health, raising awareness, and learning about diabetes and endocrine diseases. Additionally, it raises community awareness of the factors that cause diabetes. Consequently, SDEA organizes health awareness and education campaigns, as well as campaigns to measure risk rates in society and follow up on patients with high-risk factors by enrolling them in specialized programs. Moreover, the association provides health, social, and educational care for patients with diabetes and endocrinology disease.
The association also aims to exchange information and opinions between doctors and those working in the field of diabetes and endocrinology care, hold scientific meetings, support newly graduated doctors and encourage them to pursue their studies and medical training, establish specialized health education programs, encourage scientific research, and issue continuous bulletins and periodicals to doctors and the public about new developments in the treatment of diabetes and endocrinology.
Projects of SDEA
The association implemented a number of projects, including: the mobile clinic to detect diabetes patients in Saudi Arabia, and involves its own programs to participate in the fight against diabetes and obesity, in addition to the Walking Club in the Eastern Province and the Sweet Smiles Club, which brings together many children with type one diabetes and their families from the Eastern Province.
Moreover, the association has organized lectures for doctors aiming at raising the efficiency of practitioners working with diabetic patients, presenting and studying difficult cases, and exchanging information, ideas, and experiences. In addition to offering programs for health educators, nurses, nutritionists, and non-physicians to improve their performance in diabetic care.