Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases found all over the world as it infects all segments of the society; men, women, children and youth.
The Qatar Diabetes Association was established by a generous donation from His Highness the Emir in November 1995 to take care of the diabetic patients and their families and to help them in understanding all truths about the illness and how to deal with it.

Objectives:
1. Providing Patients with useful and up-to-date information.
2. Guiding and directing patients and their families to gain sufficient experience to adapt with the illness.
3. Preparing cultural and practical programs for critical cases.
4. Enlightening the public and the categories subject to infection of the diabetic hazards and ways of preventions.
5. Supporting the medical team with newsletters, leaflets, studies and researches relevant to the illness and patients.
6. Preparing and publishing relevant studies, researches, newsletters and statistics.
7. Calling for the establishment of specialized medical centers for diabetic patients in the country.
8. Encouraging governmental and indigenous (ahlia) institutions to take the necessary arrangements for supporting the patients.
9. Co-operation with other associations having similar objectives.

To achieve its objectives the association''s work covers three aspects.
They are:
A- Diabetic patients and how to support them.
B- Society members and how to protect them.
C- The medical team and the methods for supporting it.