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One third of people blind from cataract ‘do not feel need’ for surgery in Nepal
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....
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
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)....
Building Evidence-Based School Eye Health Programmes – the SEHRA project
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,...
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
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...
Using a ‘silk road’ referral pathway for retinoblastoma between Afghanistan and Pakistan
Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most common eye cancer in childhood, and in high income countries is regarded as generally curable, with nearly no children dying. In many countries however, there is no capacity to provide even basic treatment for the condition. Afghanistan...
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...
People willing to procure next pair of glasses after experiencing them once, study finds
Photo credit © Shrikant Ayyangar, Mission for Vision Presbyopia, a common age-related condition characterized by a decreased ability to focus on near objects, affects a significant portion of the global population. There are an estimated 826 million people who have...