Skip to content

Blogs

IAPB Blog is home to ideas, policy positions, findings, and stories that provides the context for eye health policy and practice. The views, ideas, technologies or policy positions in these blog posts belong to the authors and do not necessarily describe IAPB's position or views on these matters.
Opinion

26.07.2023

Vision for the Future: Progressing towards ending avoidable sight loss and achieving the SDGs by 2030

H.E. Ambassador Walton Webson

  • Sustainable Development Goals,
  • UN resolution on vision
IAPB
Eye Health is critical to achieving the SDGs

26.07.2023

Advancing eye health within the SDG Agenda: transformative actions and collaborative approaches

Holly Aindow / Zirda Kiki

  • Sustainable Development Goals,
  • UN resolution on vision
Member Story
Aravind Eye Care Pledge for World Sight Day

21.07.2023

Aravind’s Pledge for World Sight Day

Thulasiraj Ravilla

Community engagement, comprehensive eye care and enabling compliance together result in growing patient volumes.

  • Aravind Eye Hospitals,
  • Eye Care at Scale,
  • Universal Eye Health
Q&A
Investment in eye health to prevent sight loss - report was authored by the Deloitte Center for Health Economics working with Roche and IAPB teams

21.07.2023

Investment in eye health to prevent sight loss

This report was authored by the Deloitte Center for Health Economics working with Roche and IAPB

A Q and A exploring the key findings on the first global study of its kind to systematically analyse the evidence base on eye heath expenditure and its association with eye outcomes.

  • Eye health financing,
  • IPEC,
  • Roche,
  • Sustainable Development Goals
Opinion
Delivering an equal right to sight

20.07.2023

Delivering an equal right to sight

Donna O'Brien

Sharing news of new sight testing service for children with learning disabilities

  • Children,
  • glasses,
  • Intellectual disabilities,
  • Learning disabilities,
  • Sight tests,
  • Special Schools

18.07.2023

Corneal Surgery, Transplant Tissue, and Eye Banking

Countries without eye bank services are mostly located in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) – where an estimated 90% of the world’s vision impaired reside. (WHO, 2010)

  • corneal blindness,
  • Eye Banking,
  • Transplant Tissue
IAPB
Group photo

11.07.2023

IAPB West/Central Africa Sub Regional Workshop

Simon Day / Kristine Nyabera

  • 2030 In Sight Strategy,
  • eye health,
  • Ghana,
  • Ghana Red Cross,
  • Universal Health Coverage,
  • WHO
IAPB

11.07.2023

2023 Ghana Eye Health Summit

Kristine Nyabera

  • eye health,
  • Eye Summit,
  • Ghana,
  • Ghana Health Services
Member Story
doing eye exam

10.07.2023

Enabling Vision at Workplaces: Eye Health Intervention for Sanitation Workers

Asitkumar Jadhav / Shajer Shaikh / Debashis Maiti / Shrikant Ayyangar / Prem Kumar SG / Elizabeth Kurian

  • Mission For Vision,
  • sanitation workers,
  • Vision at work
Member Story
Ms Lakshmi Shinde welcoming the delegates at Ahmedabad along with the dignitaries on dias

10.07.2023

Optometry Council of India celebrates 10 years

Anitha Arvind / Lakshmi Shinde

IAPB
10 key areas of action for environmentally sustainable practices in the eye health sector
Member Story
Access matters - by Prashant Garg

26.06.2023

Access matters

Dr Prashant Garg

The 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE high-level meeting in Singapore discussed critical gaps to success--LVPEI has a model to tackle access. The value of LVPEI’s eye health pyramid and its ability to address the key gap in healthcare delivery: access.

  • 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE,
  • Access,
  • eye care,
  • LV Prasad Eye Institute,
  • Pyramidal network