WSD information in 中文
World Sight Day is the most important advocacy and communications event on the eye health calendar. It is a great time to engage with the world at large – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics. This year, let us ensure that we pay attention to eye care issues that impact lives everywhere, both developed and developing economies. What’s the first thing you can do? Plan for an eye examination. Look around in your family, especially for those who are vulnerable: young, school-going children, the elderly, those with diabetes.
Download the WSD17 Activities Report to see how the world marked World Sight Day!
World Sight Day 2017 will be on 12 October 2017. This year’s call to action:
Make Vision Count
Remember, 4 out of 5—80%–of the world’s blind are avoidably so. What can be done to arrest this unconscionable fact? First, arm yourself with your country’s prevalence data and Eye Health system information–the number of trained eye health personnel, your country’s plans to tackle blindness. As they say, knowledge is power. On World Sight Day, IAPB will be launching the latest data (2015) on the prevalence of avoidable blindness and visual impairment along with the main causes. We will also have projections up to the year 2020.
This World Sight Day, let’s get the numbers out, so we know where we stand.
WSD Activities Report 2017
You can download the World Sight Day 2017 Activities Report to see in detail, what took place where. We record 578 events from 117 countries. These include awareness events, seminars, launches, donation drives, rallies and online events. We have events from IAPB members, the WHO–even the Pope!
Download the report
IAPB Vision Atlas
The IAPB Vision Atlas website is a compilation of the very latest data and evidence related to avoidable blindness and vision impairment. On World Sight Day 2017, the Atlas will have updated prevalence maps with data for every country from 1990 to 2015, with projections to 2020. It will also host additional maps for the 21 GBD Regions showing Causes and the numbers affected by Near-Vision Loss.
Visit: http://atlas.iapb.org
Eye Inspire

Eye Inspire microsite: http://eyeinspire.iapb.org
IAPB Photo Competition
Audiences
Send your World Sight Day 2017 event details and photographs to communications@iapb.org to have it included in the World Sight Day 2017 Activities Report.
Also see the WSD 2017 Activities Report
Areas of Focus
Social Media
WSD Promotional material
We are no longer taking requests for World Sight Day 2017 Promotional Material Packs.
However you can download the WSD 2017 Promotional Material.
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