For over 40 years, a large global partnership has been battling river blindness (the medical term is onchocerciasis), one of the most devastating of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Huge progress has been made to control the disease; however, it remains among the most prevalent of the NTDs and continues to cause visual impairment, blindness…
La cirugía de catarata sufrió cambios significativos que comenzaron con el abandono de la cirugía intracapsular, continuando con la llegada de las lentes intraoculares, y las variaciones continuas en la extracción extracapsular del cristalino. La cirugía de catarata extracapsular que emplea una incisión 10 mm en el limbo y que requiere el cierre de la…
La prevalencia de la diabetes está aumentando debido a la mayor sobrevida y el cambio en el estilo de vida de la población, llegando incluso a más del 10% en algunos países. Después de 20 años, el 90% de los casos de diabetes tipo 1 y el 60% del tipo 2, tendrían alguna forma de…
Advocacy is a process of influencing people and institutions in order to achieve a specific outcome. An advocacy campaign is a planned project over a given period of time in order to achieve some specific advocacy goals. This “How To” guide has been prepared to help you develop an advocacy strategy on Human Resources for…
With some country exceptions, Sub-Saharan Africa is characterised by a lack of eye health and vision personnel and this is a significant contributing factor to the high prevalence of avoidable vision impairment and blindness. With ageing populations more disposed to sight loss and with risks such as diabetes increasing, levels of avoidable blindness in the…
Effective advocacy is critical to the success of international efforts to realise the objectives of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Only by securing the support of key actors, whether they are local health providers, national governments, or their development partners, can we hope to bring about the changes we seek: the universal strengthening of…
In 2010, mid-point in the VISION 2020: The Right to Sight initiative's timeline, IAPB published a State of the World Sight report. The report covers IAPB and VISION 2020 fundamental principles, advocacy / making the case for eye health, and disease control / priority intervention areas.
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