When compared to usual care situations in Cameroon, health care providers taking care of patients with T1D should have relatively favourable working conditions: a senior clinician reported that according to the guidelines, computers are supposed to be available, allowing for electronic medical record keeping; management protocols and local guidelines are supposed to be in place to support day-to-day work; there are individual office spaces; educational tools are available to explain the disease and its evolution; insulin and glucose monitoring strips are distributed free of charge. The gene discussed is INS; the disease is type 1 diabetes mellitus.