 | Name: Shanaz
Overview: Shanaz works as Lead Nurse/ Diabetes Specialist Nurse on the UK Asian Diabetes Study, which is investigating the benefits of providing structured care, tailored to the needs of the South Asian community. Her father came to the UK from Pakistan in 1948 and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1960. She has two older sisters who have both developed Type 2 diabetes in recent years. The experiences of her family and of her patients have convinced her that people with diabetes can live a long healthy life, provided that they adopt a healthy diet and take exercise.
There is also an interview with her brother Mushtaq.
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|  | Name: Husne Ara
Overview: Husne Ara`s father was diagnosed with diabetes in Bangladesh in 1963. Although she was only 10, she gave her father his injections and became interested in diabetes. She came to England to get married when she was 17 in 1970. In 1990 she got a job as Diabetes Link Worker at the Royal London Hospital, to interpret for Bangladeshi patients in Tower Hamlets, translate information for them and educate her colleagues about cultural differences. She became a Diabetes Lay Educator in 2005 and runs courses for Bangladeshi people with Type 2 diabetes. She was diagnosed with diabetes herself in 2006.
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|  | Name: Kushira Hackett
Overview: Kushira Hackett`s mother was white and her father black – from Guyana. Her parents split up when she was 5 and her mother later married a Jamaican. After diagnosis, the hospital staff explained to her mother about portions and gave her scales for weighing food, but gave no explanations to Kushira. Her mother also gave no explanations, and she thinks this led to her rebellion against diabetes, and to her leaving home aged 16. She had a period of homelessness, but later gained a law degree and now lives happily in Birmingham with her partner and two children.
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|  | Name: Tas Bokhari
Overview: Tas Bokhari`s parents were wealthy landowners in India. As Muslims, they were forced to migrate to Pakistan in 1947 and many of his family were killed on the way. He was educated in a mission school and a college before moving to England in 1961. He married an English librarian in 1964 and has two children. After acquiring an HNC in Mechanical Engineering, he worked as a motorcycle inspector and design engineer and then ran a nursing home. He also had a part-time job at Edgbaston cricket ground and was well-known in Pakistan for his radio cricket commentaries.
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 | Name: Agnes
Overview: Agnes` father worked in sugar cane fields in St. Kitts and her mother in the markets. Agnes worked as a maid until coming to England aged 22. She has been married twice and has five children. She controlled her diabetes with tablets, apart from a short spell on insulin while being treated for cancer. At the time of recording, she had recovered from cancer, but was about to go on insulin permanently. At 66, she still gets up at 4.30 every morning to work as a cleaning supervisor and mobile carer, and says her Christian faith sustains her.
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|  | Name: Mushtaq
Overview: Mushtaq was in business until he gave up work, aged thirty, to look after his parents full-time. Both parents had Type 2 diabetes and they had managed well, until his mother developed Alzheimers and his father manic depression. He finds that mental illnesses and diabetes affect each other greatly, but he has difficulty in persuading specialists in these fields to consult each other. He earns far less than he did in business and does it for love, but wishes that the government could pay a little more, in recognition of how much money is saved by family members` full-time care.
There is also an interview with Mushtaq`s sister, Shanaz.
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 | Name: Barbara Boucher
Overview: In 1970, Barbara Boucher became Consultant Physician at The London Hospital, at a time when female consultants were rare, and she worked there until 1998. She was also Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, from 1970 to 1999. She has undertaken research on many aspects of diabetes and on improving diabetes care, especially for pregnant women. Through her work in the East End of London, she has raised awareness about causes of diabetes amongst Asian people in Britain. She has found links between vitamin D deficiency and Type 2 diabetes, and identified Betel-nut chewing as a risk factor.
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|  | Name: Barbara
Overview: Barbara was one of the last generations to qualify as a nurse without a university degree. After training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, from 1988-91, she was a staff nurse on general medical wards until 1996, when she began to specialise in diabetes at the University Hospital in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Since then, she has been called variously a Diabetes Nurse Educator, a Diabetes Specialist Nurse and a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Although she feels well-qualified by experience, she would like to take a degree. Another ambition is to provide more culturally-specific care for patients who share her Caribbean background.
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 | Name: Ali Zafar
Overview: Ali Zafar qualified in India in 1967 and came to England in 1970. He began to specialise in diabetes when he worked as a registrar at East Birmingham hospital (now Heartlands) from 1972 to 1975. He became a GP in an inner-city practice in 1975, but continued to work at the hospital diabetic clinic, first as a clinical assistant and then as a hospital practitioner, until he retired in 2006. Both the hospital and his surgery were in areas with a high percentage of Asian people. He first produced an Asian diet sheet in the early 1970s.
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|  | Name: David
Overview: David`s father was a Fijian doctor whose work took him all round the Fiji islands. David himself managed a small post office before coming to England in 1959. His wife and baby son joined him later and they had six more children. He had converted from Methodism to his wife`s Catholicism and his children attended Catholic schools in Birmingham. He worked long hours to support them, as a telecommunications engineer, until he retired at the age of 60. He used to dream of returning to Fiji but now feels he couldn`t leave his children and grandchildren.
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 | Name: Patsy
Overview: Patsy is one of ten children. Her parents emigrated from Jamaica in the 1950s. Her mother worked as an auxiliary nurse and her father as a builder. After diagnosis, she resented having to weigh portions of carbohydrate, while her family could eat what they liked. She still calculates the weight of food. The question `Why me?` has persisted throughout her life. She feels that everything possible has gone wrong with her health and she is now on haemodialysis. But her love for her young son keeps her going and, despite poor health, she`s determined to spend time with him.
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|  | Name: Bena
Overview: Bena was born in the Kigezi District of Uganda, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. She was diagnosed when nearly 12 and then shunned by children who thought diabetes was contagious. She lived on chapattis and spinach and a bitter vegetable juice thought to cure diabetes. When Idi Amin expelled Ugandan Asians in 1972, her family came to England, and she was delighted to be allowed to eat a wider range of food. She eventually married an Englishman and had two daughters. She works as an office administrator, in a social services department that supports disabled children.
There are also interviews with Bena`s daughter, Emma and her husband, Terry.
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 | Name: Isobel
Overview: Isobel was brought up in a small English market town. She moved to a large city in the 1960s where she met and married her husband, two years after he`d arrived in England from Pakistan. Both their families were anxious about the relationship at first, but they found much in common between her Methodist and his Muslim values and ate a mixture of English and Asian food. They were happy until the late 1990s, when he began to develop many of the complications associated with Type 2 diabetes. His loss of mobility made him depressed until he died in 2006. This interview is in written form only.
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|  | Name: Terry
Overview: Terry`s wife, Bena, was diagnosed with diabetes in Uganda in 1965 and came to England when her family was expelled by Idi Amin in 1972. Terry met her in a pub in Leicester in 1979 and did not at first realise that she was Asian. Neither of their families approved of their marriage, but it has been very successful. Terry learnt to cope with her frequent hypos and need for regular meals. Bena gave up being vegetarian and learnt to cook English food. They have two daughters who are also closely involved in helping Bena to manage her diabetes.
There are also interviews with Terry`s wife, Bena and their daughter, Emma.
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 | Name: Emma
Overview: Emma`s mother, Bena, was diagnosed with diabetes in Uganda in 1965 and came to England when her family was expelled by Idi Amin. She married an Englishman, Terry, and had two children – Emma and her younger sister. When Terry was at work, Emma and her sister had to cope from an early age with their mother becoming unconscious. Her sister has now married and left home, but Emma still lives with her parents and was often phoned at work when her mother passed out – until her mother attended a DAFNE course and gained better control of her diabetes.
There are also interviews with Emma`s mother, Bena, and her father, Terry.
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