By Spectrum News Staff

City Council Committee on Health chair Lynn Schulman, a Queens Democrat, announced the Council will be proposing a citywide diabetes reduction plan this year.

“It’s something that the city really hasn’t focused on,” Schulman said. “We need to go into communities with culturally competent education materials.”

The councilmember said the plan will be based on the 90-90-90 strategy developed by the United Nations to tackle the AIDS epidemic.

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