18 Apr 2026 · NDI Team

Why peer-led diabetes care matters in rural Uganda

When the person handing you your test strips also lives with Type 1 Diabetes, something quiet and important shifts in how care is received.

Peer-led care isn’t a buzzword for us. It’s the difference between an instruction read aloud and an instruction lived. When a patient new to insulin meets a peer leader who has been managing T1D for fifteen years, the conversation is shorter, the silences are shorter, and the trust arrives much sooner.

Our weekly clinics, education sessions and support groups are built around that simple advantage. Clinicians lead clinical work; peers lead what cannot be prescribed.

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In August 2016, in partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International, we opened a small centre that has quietly changed what diabetes care looks like in rural Kasese.

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