AHIP Backs Bilingual Health Education Campaign

America’s Health Insurance Plans is helping nonprofit groups tell people with diabetes about the threat the condition poses to their feet.

AHIP, Washington, has worked with the League of United Latin American Citizens, Washington, and the American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, Va., to develop television, radio and print public service announcements that urge people with diabetes to check their feet.

The message is important, because diabetes leads to about 82,000 amputations in the United States each year, about 85% of those amputations could be prevented if all people with diabetes received proper foot call, AHIP says.