We are a community based resource hub for diabetics of all types. 100% volunteer run. We do not utilize means testing: anyone who requests help with diabetes related costs is eligible to receive it.
We seek to create a platform for those in our community who have been systemically erased from the conversation around insulin and medication access, especially members of the diabetes community who are (but not limited to) Black, Indigenous, Latinx, type 2, LADA, MODY, type 3C, CFRD, fat, incarcerated, immigrants, un/under-documented, trans, and who have co-occurring disabilities.
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Request Aid

After filling out our intake form below, a volunteer from our Intake Team will reach out to you via text or email within 24-48 hours of the request to assist you. If you are in emergency need (24 hours or less), we cannot guarantee that we will be able to help you in a timely manner. Please seek immediate medical help at a local ER or by calling 911.

Donate Funds

Make a gift to our general fund, or give directly to community members in need, to help eliminate insulin, medication, and supply insecurity.

Donate non-Rx Supplies

Let us know what kind of non-prescription supplies you have to share.

Volunteer

We are 100% volunteer run, and rely on gifts of time and talent to help our fellow community members get what they need.

Who is Mutual Aid Diabetes, and what do we do?

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Many of us have relied on mutual aid due to rationing insulin and supplies, and many of us have provided direct aid.

Mutual Aid Diabetes (MAD) was formed in response to the insulin crisis in the United States. We are a group of diabetics who saw a need, especially during the pandemic of COVID-19, to more formally organize mutual aid efforts in the diabetes community.

Mutual Aid Diabetes: an Angel of sorts appeared at my doorstep today. I lost my job, had $164 unemployment checks for 5 weeks, and running out of insulin and money, I asked MAD for help. [MAD] saved me from going to the ER. - Jen C., Community Member
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MAD in the media

Learn more about our organizers and how we work:

Human Rights Watch

Read the 92-page report: “If I’m Out of Insulin, I’m Going to Die” which details why US insulin prices abuse human rights and features MAD organizers Allie, Emily, and Zoe.

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Sick Note

Diabetics turn to one another for help: A conversation with Allie Marotta of Mutual Aid Diabetes.

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Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

“These systems are set up to continue gouging people for their money and also to create this continual need,” Miller said. “So, we are already seeing a bunch of people re-submitting requests for us. But we do our best to try and give them creative options so that maybe we don’t need to.”

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SELF Magazine

As insulin costs keep rising, research suggests that about 25% of diabetics have had to resort to rationing their insulin, despite the very real health risks associated with doing so.

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The Shot

"Designer and developer Kathryn Yu made a game based on the real life story of Mutual Aid Diabetes and NY #Insulin4All activist Allie Marotta and her experience having to ration insulin."

Diabetes Connections with Stacey Simms

When they’re out of options, people who use insulin are turning to Go Fund Me accounts and other online crowd-sourcing ways of raising funds. Mutual Aid Diabetes (MAD) is a new organization that hopes to help.

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