RON RAAB B.EC, PRESIDENT,

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RON RAAB B.EC, PRESIDENT, INSULIN FOR LIFE
AUSTRALIA
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INSULIN FOR LIFE Australia

• What is it?
• A not-for-profit organization established in
  1999 in Melbourne, Australia
• Background
• expands the activities of the International
  Insulin Distribution Program, International
  Diabetes Institute, Australia, 1986 1999, based
  on not wasting insulin etc
• Objectives
• urgent short - term and continuous overseas
  supply of insulin and other items
• mentoring similar programs in other countries
• sustainable improvement in the cost of insulin to
  the user and in its availability in countries in
  need.

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? Countries that have received insulin and other
diabetes supplies from Insulin For Life
Australia since 1986
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LOCATION OF
INSULIN FOR LIFE (Melbourne,
Australia)
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46 countries (221 separate occasions) to which
insulin other diabetes supplies have been sent
since 1986
CENTRAL S.AMERICA / CARIBBEAN
SOUTH-EAST ASIA
WESTERN PACIFIC
EUROPE
AFRICA
Cameroon
Armenia
Argentina
Bangladesh
Kiribati
Congo (Dem Rep)
Papua New Guinea
Bolivia
East Timor
Bulgaria
Congo (Rep)
Cuba
India
Byelorussia
Ethiopia
Philippines
Ecuador
Myanmar (Burma)
Estonia
Ghana
Tonga
El Salvador
Kazakhstan
Ivory Coast
Haiti
Nepal
Kosovo
Kenya
Mexico
Latvia
Rwanda
Nicaragua
Lithuania
Sudan
Peru
Tanzania
Russia
Trinidad Tobago
Togo
Serbia
Uganda
Venezuela
Ukraine
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe
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The 5 centres that are currently collecting
distributing supplies and are part of the Insulin
for Life network, or have been mentored by IFL
IDD Trust, UK
Insulin Zum Leben, Germany
IFL Oklahoma
Location of
Insulin For Life (Melbourne,
Australia)
Diabetes Auckland
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Total supplies donated by Insulin
For Life Australia since
1986

• 1,225,000 mls insulin (122,500 vials)
• 210,538 blood glucose strips
• 1,362,339 syringes

and meters, pen needles, insulin pens and lancets

• Estimated value US 3,675,000
• (AUD 6,934,000)
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ECONOMICS OF THE PROGRAM

• Vials donated in 16 years 123,000 (1,230,000
  mls)
• Operating costs US 160,000 (AUD 260,000)
• People supplied for 1 month 123,000
• ? Cost of each 10ml vial supplied US
  1.30 (AUD 2.15)

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