Prevalence of blindness in Indonesia continues to be high. To overcome visual impairment in Indonesia, various efforts are needed including promotive, preventative, curative and rehabilitative action. Participation and contribution from cross-programmer and across sectors, as well as partners, in the implementation of these visual visual impairment control programme are welcome. This roadmap can be used…
Summary of findings from the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey in Bhutan in 2018. The 2018 survey’s sampling frame covered the population aged 50 years and older, across all 20 districts of the kingdom.
The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released the “Standard Guidelines for Comprehensive School Eye Health programmes”. The document should help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world. (Need help to promote the guidelines? Download this presentation–in multiple languages).
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…
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission presented a new 5-year National Plan for Eye Health in late October 2016, which calls on government agencies and partners to work together and extend action in the lead-up to the 2020. The plan calls for the expansion of optical and optometric services in China and for…
The National Eye Heath Plan 2017-2021(NEPH), the country’s first national strategic plan for eye health was launched on 23 March 2017. It will guide and align the efforts of the Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS) and other stakeholders to significantly reduce avoidable blindness and address vision impairment in Myanmar. The purpose of Myanmar's National…
Up to 16 Million Americans Have Uncorrected Vision Impairment; Report Calls for Transformation in Population Health Efforts to Eliminate Correctable and Avoidable Vision Impairments by 2030. In 2014, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a multidisciplinary committee to “examine the core principles and public health strategies…
A paper authored by Dr Taraprasad Das, IAPB Regional Chair for SEA, Mr Yuddha Dhoj Sapkota, the regional coordinator and the ten IAPB country chairs of the region (along with other partners), reviews eye care service delivery in the South East Asia region and assesses progress towards Universal Eye Health. It looks at each…
Uncorrected Refractive Error (URE) is a major cause of public health concern. URE not only has an important impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of the people whose lives are affected by this condition, but it creates an economic burden on countries and societies – it was estimated in 2012 that the annual global…
[Español] La ceguera infantil está incluida como uno de los principales programas de atención a enfermedades dentro de la iniciativa del derecho a la visión de VISION 2020. La baja visión, ya sea en niños o adultos, ha recibido mucha menos atención, sin embargo, hay un Españolreciente interés en el tratamiento de este difícil y…
The Action for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment 2009-2013
This is the Global Action Plan document, made available as an Accessible Word document with permission from the World Health Organization. In May 2013 the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA66.4 entitled 'Towards universal eye health: a global action plan 2014–2019'. The resolution endorsed the draft action plan for the prevention of avoidable visual…
An important indicator for eye health and for monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage.
This paper provides analysis of important indicators and indicator processes of relevance to eye health, identifying challenges and opportunities and how we can leverage these for the benefit of people who are at risk of sight loss or persons with visual impairment. These include: The SDGs, the 100 Core Health Indicators and indicators for measurement of universal health coverage.
Relevance of SDG goals and targets to Eye Health and the elimination of avoidable blindness and visual impairment.
This document was produced following consultations held in Geneva during 1996 and 1997, convened by the WHO Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Deafness (PBD) at the request of, and with support from, the Task Force of the Partnership Committee of Nongovernmental Development Organizations (An earlier form of IAPB).
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