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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Insulin For Life Global Network Active Supply
Programs
Bolivia Ecuador Congo (Rep) Congo (Dem Rep)
Rwanda Tanzania Cambodia Kyrgyzstan Russia
Turkey Uzbekistan Ukraine Maldives
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Location of Insulin For Life Global (Melb
ourne, Australia)
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58 Countries (336 separate occasions) to which
insulin and other diabetes supplies have been
sent by IFL Australia since 1986 (sorted by IDF
Regions)
Africa
Benin, Cameroon, Congo (Dem Rep), Congo (Rep),
Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar,
Malawi, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Tanzania,
Toga, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe
Europe
Armenia, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Estonia,
Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Russia, Turkey , Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Western Pacific
Bali, Indonesia, Kiribati, Myanmar (Burma), Papua
New Guinea, Philippines, Tonga, East Timor
South-East Asia
Bangladesh, India,  Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad
Tobago, Venezuela
Central South America, Caribbean
USA (Hurricane Katrina)
North America
Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
Bethlehem via Israel
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Insulin for Life International Collection
Network
European Society Pediatric Endocrinology 1600 m
embers
IDD Trust, UK
IZL Germany
IFL Oklahoma
IZL Austria
Location of Insulin For Life Global (Melb
ourne, 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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