Programmes such as Changing Diabetes in Children (CDiC, a collaboration between Novo Nordisk, the World Diabetes Foundation, Roche Pharmaceuticals and local health ministries), Life for a Child and local African partner organizations now ensure that reliable and sufficient quantities of human insulin are usually available to children in Uganda and Kenya, and, to a lesser extent, home glucose metres, glucose test strips and haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) testing supplies are provided. Here, INS is linked to diabetes mellitus.