“Our mission: help improve the treatment of the 800 million people living with diabetes around the world today — and the billion the world is heading toward.”
Diabetes runs in families — and families are where it can be caught earliest. On the family tree, mark the relatives who have diabetes and see what it could mean for you. Then take the one step that changes the story: a simple A1c blood test.
Today: over 800 million. By 2050: more than a billion.
No one reaches 1 billion people alone. Associations around the world are joining — bringing the family tree, the A1c message, and free family websites to the people they serve. Each partner is listed at exactly the level they have agreed to.
Mauritanian association fighting diabetes, in West Africa.
Partnership in formationInstituto Nacional de Diabetes, Endocrinología y Nutrición — sharing the Detective sites with the families it serves.
Sharing the Detective sites with familiesDoes your diabetes association, clinic, or community group want to bring this to your families? Your name belongs on this wall — at whatever level you choose.
The parent figures on the tree come from the Family Card — the card made to be handed to families so they can see their own risk at a glance:
Made for families and kids — free to use, free to share. Start with the Detective sites:
Four generations, from your great-grandparents down to you. For each relative, answer “Diabetes? Yes or No” — tap the person, or use their Yes / No switch — and watch your chance appear at the bottom of the tree.
How it works: brothers and sisters appear on the tree as soon as you count them above — each with their own Yes / No. If a brother or sister doesn’t have it yet, leave them on No: your parents’ figure still stands, and their own chance is why the whole family gets checked.
Please read: these are population averages for education, not a personal prediction. Risk is not destiny — caught early, type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented.