Recognizing also that diabetes is a chronic, debilitating and costly disease associated with severe complications, which poses severe risks for families, Member States and the entire world and serious challenges to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
又认识到糖尿病是一种令人身体虚弱、医药费高昂、伴有严重并发症的慢性病，可能对家庭、会员国和全世界造成严重危害，并给实现国际商定的发展目标，包括千年发展目标带来严峻挑战，