Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

The IAPB Highlights 2013 provides you with an overview of achievements and activities IAPB and the membership have collectively brought about or contributed to over the past year. In his foreword to the publication, Bob McMullan, IAPB President, writes, “(2013) has seen some landmark achievements due to the outstanding work of member organisations, key individuals and IAPB…

October 10, 2013

WSD13: How was this year?

Tejah Balantrapu

Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

One sits back and wonders at the number of International Health Days in a year – a little too many perhaps? What happens – when like this year – the same date is shared by different health issues (World Sight Day and World Mental Health Day)? Are we on the verge of an international health…

October 10, 2013

New IAPB Report on ‘Universal Eye Health’ launched on World Sight Day

Tejah Balantrapu

Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

World Sight Day 2013 (WSD) – an international day of awareness about avoidable blindness and its prevention – will mark the launch of a report on Universal Eye Health. 2013 is an important year, as it marks the launch of a new WHO Action Plan on the prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment 2014-19. In keeping with…

July 11, 2013

The Fred Hollows Foundation Invites Research Proposals

Alessandro Di Capua

The Fred Hollows Foundation continues to implement the vision of the late Fred Hollows to end avoidable blindness and improve the health of indigenous Australians. An estimated 32 million people around the world today are blind, of which four out of five don’t have to be. The Foundation is committed to investing in research, both…

May 20, 2013

The L’OCCITANE Sight Award

Alessandro Di Capua

The L’OCCITANE Foundation is involved in two fields of action: the support for the visually impaired and the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso. With an average annual budget of €1,000,000, it supports every year around 15 projects. Supporting the Visually Impaired As L’OCCITANE is a sensorial brand, its Foundation works with the senses…

May 13, 2013

Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund

Tejah Balantrapu

Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

Do you have the next breakthrough in eye health innovation? Seeing is Believing is providing US$3mn fund to support innovation in eye health. In 1999, VISION 2020, the global campaign to eliminate avoidable blindness, was launched, and since then there has been significant progress in the field of eye care. Innovation has been central to…

May 3, 2013

Australian Foreign Minister Launches New Study into Cost and Benefits of Ending Blindness

Tejah Balantrapu

Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

Australia’s Foreign Minister, Senator Bob Carr launched a landmark study into the cost and benefits of ending avoidable blindness throughout the world

April 17, 2013

Global Trachoma Survey kicks off in Ethiopia

Tejah Balantrapu

Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

The ITI and a consortium of NGOs come together to map trachoma

November 20, 2012

Seeing is Believing launches flagship East Africa Child Eye Health project

Tejah Balantrapu

Communications Manager

Organisation: IAPB

Seeing is Believing is bringing together 15 different organisations across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to develop a unified approach to the delivery of child eye-health in the region. USD6.25mn will be invested through the programme with each country receiving a roughly equal amount of funding. The need There is a high need in this region…

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IAPB Highlights 2013

WSD13: How was this year?

New IAPB Report on ‘Universal Eye Health’ launched on World Sight Day

The Fred Hollows Foundation Invites Research Proposals

The L’OCCITANE Sight Award

Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund

Australian Foreign Minister Launches New Study into Cost and Benefits of Ending Blindness

Global Trachoma Survey kicks off in Ethiopia

Seeing is Believing launches flagship East Africa Child Eye Health project

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