by Hugh Bassett | Aug 11, 2025 | News
Cataract surgery is a highly cost-effective public health initiative, addressing the main cause of avoidable blindness. Nepal has a comparatively high rate of sight loss globally, with 6.7m people experiencing some form of sight loss, and 65% of this due to cataract....
by Hugh Bassett | Jul 21, 2025 | News
Quality improvement (QI) aims to enhance the quality and delivery of health care through incremental changes. Examples of QI include introducing simple, low-risk initiatives like financial incentives and reminders to improve attendance at appointments or adherence to...
by Hugh Bassett | Jul 16, 2025 | News
Fatima Kyari, Associate Professor at the International Centre for Eye Health and a distinguished Nigerian ophthalmologist and ophthalmic epidemiologist, has been appointed as the Africa Region Chair for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)....
by Hugh Bassett | Jul 14, 2025 | News
Schoolgirls in India Photograph: Priya Morjaria We don’t know how many children worldwide have problems with their eyesight. The best estimates suggest that globally, almost 450 million children need glasses and around two million are blind. To learn effectively,...
by Hugh Bassett | Jul 1, 2025 | News
Photo credit: Aeesha Malik Blindness and sight loss in early childhood has far-reaching consequences for a child, affecting their physical and mental development, education, future employment and wellbeing. Globally, 70 million have sight loss and 1.4 million are...
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