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23.05.2025

Summary guide on quality standards for spectacles

The Summary guide on quality standards for spectacles simplifies global quality standards and provides practical guidance on best practices for dispensing spectacles.

22.05.2025

Competency-based refractive error teams

The Competency-based refractive error teams (CRET) tool, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a practical resource designed to support the delivery of high-quality, team-based refractive error services.

21.05.2025

Vision and hearing screening for school-age children: implementation handbook

This handbook provides practical guidance to support the establishment of sensory screening programmes for school-age children.

23.04.2025

Vision Care in APAC — Understanding the Societal and Economic Burden

This report outlines how an ageing population, rising diabetes rates, and low awareness of retinal conditions in Asia Pacific are reshaping vision care, highlighting new opportunities to improve care through existing systems.

15.10.2024

Better Education in Sight summary

This summary of Better Education in Sight provides an estimate of global learning and economic productivity losses from uncorrected refractive error in schools.

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18.06.2024

School Eye Health Guidelines

The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released these guidelines to help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world.

Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities

01.04.2024

Report on the Assessment of National Eye Health Strategies

Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities

Diabetic Retinopathy: A Call for Global Action

27.03.2024

Diabetic Retinopathy: A Call for Global Action

A policy brief developed by IDF and The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) that advocates for a joint approach to prevent and manage vision loss in people living with diabetes by integrating diabetic retinopathy (DR) care into diabetes policies and national health plans.

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01.02.2024

Vision and eye screening implementation handbook

The WHO Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH) offers a step-by-step guidance for conducting vision and eye screenings in community and primary care settings.

Glasses for All: Improving Supply to the Poorest

30.01.2024

Glasses for All: Improving Supply to the Poorest

This key report sheds light on the often-overlooked supply-side barriers that prevent many in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) from obtaining affordable, quality glasses.

15.11.2023

Love Your Eyes at Work – World Sight Day 2023 Campaign Report

This report highlights the impact and success of the 2023 Love Your Eyes at Work campaign.

2022-2023 L’OCCITANE Philanthropy Report

26.10.2023

2022-2023 L’OCCITANE Philanthropy Report

L’OCCITANE en Provence has always put people at the heart of its operation. For more than 20 years, it has been committed to Caring for Sight, supporting projects around the world that help prevent blindness.