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Adaptive Trials Could Lead to Improvements in Health Service Quality

Adaptive Trials Could Lead to Improvements in Health Service Quality

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...

Professor Fatima Kyari Appointed IAPB Africa Chair

Professor Fatima Kyari Appointed IAPB Africa Chair

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)....

Changing policy through research: Child Eye Health in Tanzania

Changing policy through research: Child Eye Health in Tanzania

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...

Equity can be better addressed in glaucoma research

Equity can be better addressed in glaucoma research

Photo credit: Heiko Philippin Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness globally. In 2020, 3.6 million people over 50 years of age were blind globally due to the condition, and there are estimated to be 112 million people with glaucoma by 2040. Early...

No countries on track to reach eREC target by 2030, study finds

No countries on track to reach eREC target by 2030, study finds

Photo credit: Melvin Rodriguez Uncorrected refractive error is the most common cause of vision impairment, and the second leading cause of blindness in the world. It is caused when the shape of the eye keeps light from focusing correctly, and means you require...