by Hugh Bassett | Nov 25, 2024 | News
Currently, many child healthcare programmes globally do not include eye screening, and health workers are not trained in how to detect eye conditions. This leads to millions of children with eye conditions being missed and unable to access the care they need. In fact,...
by Hugh Bassett | Nov 21, 2024 | News
Peek Vision, a social enterprise and close partner of the International Centre for Eye Health, has reached one million people with an eye condition treated through their system. Peek started as a PhD project by ICEH Professor Andrew Bastawrous in 2012, eventually...
by Hugh Bassett | Oct 31, 2024 | News
We at the International Centre for Eye Health are saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Amos Kibata, who died on 17 September 2024 following a battle with cancer. Dr Kibata was a renowned ophthalmologist and founder of the City Eye Hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya. He also...
by Hugh Bassett | Oct 24, 2024 | News
© John Buchan Trachoma is a painful blinding eye disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Repeated infections with the bacteria cause the eyelids to swell and turn inwards. Without intervention, the eyelashes can scrape the front of the eye, leading to...
by Hugh Bassett | Oct 16, 2024 | News
A study by the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and the International Centre for Eye Health has shed light on the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). The study was carried out between July 2018 and April 2019...
by Hugh Bassett | Oct 15, 2024 | News
A new study has shown survival rates in Africa for a childhood cancer are dramatically lower than in high-income countries. Retinoblastoma is the most common eye cancer in children globally. In high income countries such as the UK, nearly all children will survive it....
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