December 18, 2019

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2020

IAPB
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships.
Organisation: IAPB

CHOGM 2020 will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre during the week starting 22 June. Leaders from all 53 Commonwealth countries are expected to attend. The theme for the meeting is ‘Delivering A Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming’ Visit Rwanda’s CHOGM Website

December 18, 2019

Session on the Africa Regional Plan

Simon Day
Regional Programme Coordinator
Organisation: International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)

A big thank you to all who attended the IAPB Council of Members Session on The Africa Regional Plan.  We had a full house and rich and fruitful engagement from all participants.  The session covered the implementation of the IAPB Africa 2019-2022 Workplan and highlighted opportunities for member organisations to engage with it.  When originally…

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December 18, 2019

2019 in Review: CEO Update

Peter Holland
Chief Executive Officer
Organisation: The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
2019 has been an incredibly active year for IAPB and the global eye care sector. Some of our highlights include: The first ever mention of eye health at the UN in the declaration on Universal Health Coverage adopted by the UN General Assembly in September, thanks to the unstinting efforts of the UN Friends of…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: A Year in Photos

Saloni Nagpaul
Communications Coordinator
Organisation: IAPB
JANUARY Growing Membership A long standing IAPB Group C member, OneSight, opted to become a Group B member. We also started 2019 by welcoming three new Group C members: Clearly, Global Vision 2020 and Hawaiian Eye Foundation. FEBRUARY Singapore announced as the venue for Global Assembly IAPB will be hosting its Global Assembly in Singapore with SERI from October 12-14, 2020.…

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December 17, 2019

IAPB Council of Members 2019 Round-up

Tejah Balantrapu
Communications Manager
Organisation: IAPB

The Council this year in Dar es Salaam brought together many strands of IAPB’s work. In the run-up to next year’s Global Assembly 2020, the Council showcased and discussed key themes that will light up our programme next year. Sessions covered a range of topics, including gender equity, climate-action, programme delivery, fundraising and Advocacy for…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: Seeing is Believing

Sally Crook
Seeing is Believing Programme Manager
Organisation: IAPB
2019 has been the penultimate year for Seeing is Believing (SiB).  The Seeing is Believing teams at both IAPB and at Standard Chartered are now focusing on preparing for a "neat and tidy" close-out of the whole programme with all our implementing partners by the end of 2020.  To date, 24 of 60 Type 1…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: Global Advocacy

Jessica Crofts-Lawrence
Head of Policy and Advocacy
Organisation: IAPB
It has been a busy year for the IAPB advocacy team. There have been a number of exciting developments and a few important firsts for eye health. Here are our top three highlights from the year. Launch of the World Report on Vision and working towards a World Health Assembly Resolution The long anticipated World…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: IAPB Standard List

Philip Hoare
Procurement & Standard List Manager
Organisation: IAPB
The IAPB Standard List has a long- and well-established heritage of over 30 years from its inception as a booklet publication to a highly respected on-line resource with over 25,000 unique visitors annually. IAPB being a peak body global alliance with a growing membership of over 150 members representing 400,000 health workers globally is ideally…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: Highlights from IAPB South-East Asia

Yuddha Dhoj Sapkota
IAPB South East Asia Regional Coordinator
Organisation: IAPB
The year 2019 was crucial for our sector. It is the year before the end of the global campaign of IAPB and WHO Vision 2020 The Right to Sight. It is also the last year of WHO Global Action Plan 2014 – 2019. The Vision 2020 era is ending but our aspirations and global challenges…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: Highlights from IAPB Western Pacific

Drew Keys
Regional Program Manager, Western Pacific
Organisation: International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Looking back over 2019, it’s impossible not to also look ahead to 2020. The pivotal year that many of us have been working towards throughout our career in the eye health sector, is almost upon us. It’s only fitting that our members and stakeholders are keeping one eye on the future and that they expect…

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December 17, 2019

2019 in Review: Highlights from IAPB Africa

Simon Day
Regional Programme Coordinator
Organisation: International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
2019 has been a jam-packed year. We’ve had key launches (more on them below) of which the most notable for global eye health is the World Report on Vision. IAPB also returned to the African continent after the 10GA in Durban (in 2016) to Dar es Salaam for its Council. This was a very fruitful…

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December 16, 2019

2019 in Review: Transition to 2020

Victoria Sheffield
President, International Eye Foundation and Vice-President, IAPB
Organisation: International Eye Foundation
When I haven’t travelled for about 3 months, I miss stepping over that little space between the jetway and the plane and soaring to my next challenge.  Leaving 2019 and embarking on 2020 feels like that to me.  Two decades have flown by since our meetings at WHO in 1999 to launch VISION2020/The Right to…

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December 16, 2019

2019 in Review: At a crossroads

Bob McMullan
President
Organisation: International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
The IAPB alliance is at a crossroads. Many major initiatives of the past are winding down, and we are putting together the framework for a bold and ambitious new future. During our Council of Members meetings this year in Dar es Salaam, I shook hands with representatives from two big, remarkable initiatives to tackle avoidable…

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December 13, 2019

Editorial Diciembre 2019: Lo que debemos saber a 2 décadas del programa VISIÓN 2020

Dr Francisco Martínez Castro
Regional Chair for IAPB Latin America
Organisation: IAPB

A finales del siglo pasado numerosas advertencias de Organizaciones alertaron a nuestra Región sobre el crecimiento de Discapacidad Visual, y 2 respuestas memorables acontecieron: La primera fue la Convocatoria Continental al DIA D, Día para la Detección de la Retinopatía Diabética, exitosa por lograr el análisis de 7,715 pacientes con resultados que despertaron la necesidad…

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December 13, 2019

Secuenciación de ADN de Siguiente Generación: La Revolución en el Diagnóstico de las Enfermedades Oculares Genéticas

IAPB
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships.
Organisation: IAPB

En el humano las enfermedades genéticas tienen diversos orígenes. Algunas pueden deberse a anomalías cromosómicas (por ejemplo, el síndrome de Down y el síndrome de Turner) mientras que otras se originan por una combinación de factores genéticos y ambientales (por ejemplo, la hipertensión arterial, la diabetes mellitus 2 y la mayoría de las enfermedades crónicas…

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December 13, 2019

Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmología: Ver por los Demás

IAPB
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships.
Organisation: IAPB

La historia del Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmología (IMO) está ligada a la atención asistencial y al desarrollo académico especializado. Esta inicia en 1997, cuando un pequeño grupo de médicos oftalmólogos realizaba visitas constantes a la Sierra Gorda de Querétaro, zona del estado donde se encuentran tres de los cuatro municipios con alto grado de marginación.…

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December 13, 2019

Compartiendo un Modelo de Salud Visual Exitoso a la Comunidad

IAPB
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships.
Organisation: IAPB

Hace 20 años la PAAO tuvo la iniciativa de convocar a todos los Hospitales importantes del continente para realizar un registro de los pacientes que tuvieran diagnóstico de Diabetes, fue tan trascendente el resultado que activó a diferentes instancias oftalmológicas para tomar acción y empezar a trabajar para la prevención de la ceguera por la…

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December 13, 2019

Tamizaje de Retinopatía Diabética con Telemedicina Como Estrategia De Prevención De Ceguera: ¿Utilidad del Apoyo con Inteligencia Artificial?

IAPB
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships.
Organisation: IAPB

La diabetes es una epidemia mundial y esta relacionada con los cambios en la población como su crecimiento, envejecimiento, el cambio en su estilo de vida y la creciente urbanización. Se estima que su prevalencia esta aumentando en casi todos los paises del mundo, y se calcula que existen unas 370 millones de personas con…

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December 13, 2019

Valor de un Recuento de los Casos que Requieren Rehabilitación Visual en Enfermedades Inflamatorias

IAPB
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is an alliance of civil society organisations, corporates and professional bodies promoting eye health through advocacy, knowledge and partnerships.
Organisation: IAPB

Las enfermedades inflamatorias oculares, también llamadas uveítis, son trastornos inflamatorios que involucran el tracto uveal y afectan por contigüidad otros tejidos oculares. Se caracterizan por presentar un curso variable: agudas, crónicas, recurrentes, lo cual genera cambios deletéreos en la agudeza visual con relación a las exacerbaciones y cronicidad de la enfermedad1. De acuerdo a la…

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