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Views: Visits 5 New York/Geneva MSF calls for ambitious targets for the diagnosis, treatment, and control of diabetes, as well as transparency of insulin pricing to ensure affordable access worldwide The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes countries’ discussion of a new global resolution on “Diabetes prevention and management, including access to insulin” ahead of the World Health Assembly later this month. All countries must use this opportunity to boost access to treatment for people living with diabetes everywhere, said MSF. MSF is urging governments to use this resolution to set global targets for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes diagnosis, treatment, and control similar to the 90-90-90 goals used in the global HIV response to help get people tested, put on treatment, and effectively manage their life-long illnesses. They must also demand pharmaceutical corporations be trans