On June 22, 1999 Mary Tyler Moore lead 100 children to Whashington D.C. and asked lawmakers to increase funding to find a cure for diabetes. You might wonder why this seems so important. For one thing diabetes kills one American every three minutes....now don't you think that is reason enough to fight for more funding? If you would like to see more statistics about diabetes go to the
Diabetes Fact Page
The mission of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is to find a cure for diabetes.

Diabetes kills one American every three minutes. It affects children and adults, both genders, every race and ethnic group and leaves a vicious imprint on those who suffer from it and on those who love them. Unfortunately, according to a nationwide survey by Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, 75% of American do not know how deadly the disease is, and 38% believe that either insulin cures diabetes or makes it harmless or they do not know what effect it has. Insulin is not a cure. Without daily injections of insulin people with diabetes would not be alive......remember
Insulin Is A Life-Line....Not A Cure!

The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International (JDF) was founded in 1970 by parents of children with diabetes. Their mission: to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. JDF is organized on a business-world model. The organization's commitment to its mission totaled more than $75 million during the fiscal year ending June 2000, and that commitment has been dramatically increased to an allocation of $120 million for the fiscal year 2001. To meet the extraordinary costs of new human clinical trials, and to hasten still futher the pace of research for a cure, JDF projects a commitment of $200 million per year by 2003.

JDF now provides more funds to diabetes research than any other nonprofit, nongovernmental health agency in the world. For more information visitJDF

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