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When your child has diabetes

Mercy Mukulu, the ambassador for Children with Diabetes in Kenya. The 19-year-old has had diabetes for the past ten years. [photo: MICHAEL OLLINGA/standard

When she was diagnosed with diabetes as a nine-year-old, Mercy Mukulu, 19, did not think it was something to worry about.

“My mother looked very worried with the doctors’ revelation and it only dawned on me that I had a serious condition to manage when I fell sick and was admitted for two months,” she says.

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