As the OneSight contingent left to return to their various home countries from this past Council of Members meeting, we all agreed: this is an exciting time to be part of the vision care movement. Organizations pulling together to support each other in pursuing the goal of ending preventable blindness and vision impairment. This was…
Rohit C Khanna, V Rajashekar, Niranjan K Pehere, Gullapalli N Rao, LVPEI on the Liberia Eye Health Initiative. In July 2017, the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) opened its first centre outside India. This is the Liberia Eye Centre (LEC) at the John F Kennedy (JFK) Memorial Medical Centre in Monrovia. The L V…
On October 8th, 2019 at 7:30 AM, OneSight will be hosting an event at IAPB’s Council of Members to highlight our partnership with The Gambia to create a vision care system for the whole country. If you are attending the Council meeting and would like to know more, see the programme here. In 2013, OneSight…
Press Release Cincinnati, OH – June 28, 2019 – OneSight, the leading vision care nonprofit organization, and The Gambia government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) transitioning oversight of the country’s sustainable vision care infrastructure and marking a major milestone in resolving the global vision care access gap. K-T Overbey, President and Executive Director of…
At a symposium hosted by OneSight in conjunction with the National Geographic Society, an international panel of vision care experts reported on the successful outcomes and broad impact of vision care access on underserved communities. The panel declared that lack of vision care access continues to be a pervasive issue costing $230 billion in lost…
OneSight is truly excited to upgrade its membership and now become a Group B IAPB member. As we continue to grow our approach and programming, it’s an ideal time to also deepen our relationship and expand our role in IAPB. So consider this a re-introduction to the community. Here’s a little of our story and…
This year’s World Sight Day is just past (11th October 2018 to be exact). World Sight Day was celebrated across the IAPB membership with press conferences, walks, outreach activities, events with MoH, and more, and we loved seeing all of your celebrations and tags on social media. We have already received emails from many of…
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