DiabeOne

DiabeOne is a student-led organisation dedicated to raising awareness for type 1 diabetes within our school and wider community. Although type 1 diabetes is a chronic metabolic medical condition that can cause problems if left untreated, the medical prognosis and steps to managing this condition are surprisingly simple.

WHO projects that diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death by 2030 and we want to be part of a global effort to enhance the standard for diabetes diagnosis and care, especially for type 1 diabetics. We believe that access to proper healthcare - mental health support, nutrition, and medication (including insulin for type 1 diabetics) - is a human right, but also one which is not currently widely achievable for many in society. People don’t have the financial means or knowledge to manage these struggles(and even prevent problems if their blood sugar levels go untreated).

Through our own initiatives to raise support for this within our own community, we hope to provide this fundamental right to as many more people locally as we can.

We developed an app that would help aid the daily life of type 1 diabetics. This app would include features being: a reminder (to test blood glucose level before and after meals and to take insulin), an insulin to carb ratio calculator, the ability to scan barcodes and search for meals’ nutritional values (more specifically Thai food since similar apps won’t provide nutrition information on them and this could uplift the apprehension of type 1 diabetics in Thailand when consuming these foods) and a chat with a endocrinologist that could possibly answer diabetic’s urgent questions.