In this issue of Diabetes Voice, IDF continues its campaign to raise the profile of diabetes with healthcare organizations, governments and people everywhere. We have an exclusive interview with Badara Samb, who brings the experience he has had with other diseases of global significance to bear on our diseases of diabetes. And IDF’s Katie Dain builds on the focus of our last issue on women’s health, discussing the important condition of gestational diabetes, with its implications for future diabetes in both the mother and baby – and its enormous potential for diabetes prevention.