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Actions & Workshops

T1International holds an event each year to bring together our community to learn from each other and take action in the fight for #insulin4all.

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2025 World Diabetes Day

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2025 Action: Circus of Pharma Greed

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2024 Campaign: A T1International Toast

A group of people making hashtags with their hands and smiling at the camera for the India Day of Action 2024

2024 Global Day of Action for #insulin4all

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2023 Campaign: Celebrating a Decade of Difference

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2023 Workshop: Advocacy in Action

Nicole Smith-Holt of Minnesota, who lost her son, Alec, to insulin rationing, gives an interview to a reporter before participating in a demonstration with Type 1 Diabetes advocacy group, T1International, outside the Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, IN on October 24, 2022. Alec Smith was diagnosed at 23 with Type 1 Diabetes, an autoimmune disorder which attacks the insulin producing cells in the pancreas and makes a person fully dependent on an outside source of insulin. Alec was 26 years old and gainfully employed when he found himself aged out of his parent’s health insurance coverage and ineligible for both state health care assistance and the patient assistant programs offered by the insulin manufacturers. At the time of his death, the out-of-pocket cost for Alec’s insulin would have been $1300 per month. So until he could afford more, Alec decided to ration what insulin he had left. In June of 2017, Smith-Holt learned that Alec had died of DKA, diabetic ketoacidosis, caused by a lack of insulin. Since his death, Smith-Holt has been working passionately with non-profit organizations and lawmakers to help make affordable insulin a reality. In 2019 the Minnesota House of Representatives passed the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act which provides an emergency 30 day supply of insulin to those in need for no more than $35 as well as a more long term program for those who qualify. Since then, Maine and Colorado have passed similar legislation. © Photo by Erin Lubin

2022 Action: Health is Wealth

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2022 Workshop: Health is Wealth (opens in a new tab)

Maham, a woman in scrubs, faces the camera in front of a graphic of a grey hand on a blue background

2022 Campaign: Fight for Five

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2022 Campaign: Tea1International

Advocate holding vials in all colors for art project. Dog in background!

2021 Campaign: Vials for Life

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2021 Campaign: 100 Years from Gift to Greed

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2021 Action: 1 in 2

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2021 Workshop: Advocate Don’t Celebrate

Liz looking seriously at the camera with one finger up and an Access to Insulin is a human right shirt

2020 Action: One Decision for #insulin4all

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2020 Workshop: Change Through Community

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2019 Action: Patients have Power

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2019 Workshop (opens in a new tab)

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2019 Action: Vigil at Eli Lilly (opens in a new tab)

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2018 Campaign: Statement Photos

People holding white signs and banners saying Meds Cost Lives

2018 Action: Meds Cost Lives

Nicole shaking the CEO's hand in front of neon Lilly sign

2018 Action: Eli Lilly Shareholder Meeting

Angela with a megaphone in front of an Eli Lilly sign at the 2017 action

2017 Action: Taking a Stand at Eli Lilly

Insulin for Syrians children

2016 Insulin for Syrians

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