MADAGASCAR: Half a million undiagnosed diabetics

MADAGASCAR: Half a million undiagnosed diabetics:

TAMATAVE, 20 July 2012 (IRIN) - An estimated one million people in Madagascar are diabetic, but only about half of them know it. Finding the other half presents a major challenge for this large, island nation in which 80 percent of the population live in rural areas where few people have ever heard of this chronic and potentially deadly disease.