Home » Seeing is Believing » SiB Project Learning » Seeing is Believing: Increasing patient access to and uptake of servicesSeeing is Believing: Increasing patient access to and uptake of services Working together with people with disabilities to tackle preventable blindnessJuly 19, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesWorld Sight Day (WSD) is an annual, global event held on the second Thursday of October every year. The aim is to call global attention to the prevention of blindness, visual impairment, and improvement of general eye...READ MORE Counselling helps increase patient referral rates in PeruJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesBetween July 2014 and June 2018, the Combatting Blindness in Peru project engaged six partner health clinics working across 13 regions, with support from the Seeing is Believing initiative, funded by Standard Chartered and CBM. As well...READ MORE “Stronger Together” – Travelling in Groups to Improve Women’s Access to Eye Care in BangladeshJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesA key barrier for women to access eye care identified through our KAP study, gender analysis and field survey, was women’s inability to travel from their homes to hospitals to receive diagnosis and treatment. Although this looks...READ MORE Improving Patient Referral Systems in TanzaniaJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesOphthalmic Assistant Mr. Gisbon conducting training to Village Health Workers on Primary Eye Care and how to improve referral system.Over the last 30 months, through the SiB project, Sightsavers has collaborated with all seven districts councils in...READ MORE Strengthening patient referral systems and diagnosis and treatment services in PakistanJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to services Strengthening referral systems and diagnosis and treatment services in three hospitals in Pakistan has resulted in more than 50,000 diabetic patients being screened and treated for Sight-Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy in four years.Sightsavers ‘Seeing is Believing’ project -...READ MORE Revolutionizing School Screening in Kenya through PeekJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesMeshack is screened by his teacher, using the Peek app.Worldwide, 19 million children are visually impaired, with three quarters living in low-income countries. In Kenya, the prevalence of visual impairment among children ages 6 to 20 is...READ MORE Sightsavers India, Making change using culture as a tool – Community Health Awareness Program using Theatre in SundarbansJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe correction of refractive error with appropriate spectacles has proven to be one of the most cost-effective vision improving interventions in eye care. However, findings from spectacles compliance show variation in compliance patterns around different age groups...READ MORE SEVA - Improving surgery and spectacle acceptance through community outreach in CambodiaJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesMrs. Hin Touch with her granddaughter at the eye unit after her eyesight restoration surgeries.Reaching people who need eye care services remains a challenge around the world. Convincing these people to accept eye care services – when...READ MORE Sightsavers Pakistan - Strategies to Ensure Treatment ComplianceJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesEarly detection, regular check-up’s, timely treatment and diabetes management have a direct impact on the development, progress and regression of diabetic retinopathy. Sightsavers has introduced various strategies to ensure treatment compliance by patients identified with diabetic retinopathy in...READ MORE SEVA India - Establishing and Operating Vision Centers – Closing the Loop in Eye Care DeliveryJuly 12, 2018SiB Increasing Surgical Uptake, Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesStaff at Raya vision center utilizing the new Skype-based telemedicine communication suite.Successfully establishing and managing vision centers is an area of interest for many Global Sight Initiative hospitals. Many mentors are working with their mentees to implement...READ MORE Sightsavers & The Fred Hollows Foundation Pakistan - Improving Cataract Surgery & Spectacles AcceptanceJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesCataract is responsible for over half of the blindness, followed by trachoma, childhood blindness, uncorrected refractive errors in Pakistan. Under the ‘Seeing is Believing’ initiative of the Standard Chartered Bank and with the support of partner organisations,...READ MORE Video to educate parents on Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)July 11, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe Orbis/HKI/ECF Vietnam project has produced an excellent video to to educate children on Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP).Please watch it below:READ MORE Improving Uptake of Cataract Surgery in North Western Province, ZambiaDecember 22, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesImproving Uptake of Cataract Surgery in North Western Province, ZambiaCataract is the leading cause of avoidable blindness in North-Western Province, Zambia, mostly affecting elderly populations. Economically, North-Western Province is the least developed province in the country and...READ MORE Patient Access: Piloting Approaches to Reach People with Diabetes for DR Screening in Rural Areas of Yunnan, ChinaDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesPatient Access: Piloting Approaches to Reach People with Diabetes for DR Screening in Rural Areas of Yunnan, ChinaOne out of four people with diabetes lives in China. China has the world’s biggest diabetes population with a total of...READ MORE Behaviour Change Communication - A New Approach to CommunicationDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesHelen Keller International Myanmar – Behaviour Change CommunicationA New Approach to CommunicationIn Myanmar, approaches to education tend to be based on repetition and rote learning. “Adult education,” with its emphasis on participation, discussion and drawing on the...READ MORE Excellent Trainer Prize awarded to provincial training center trainer team by The Chinese National Committee for Prevention BlindnessDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesOrbis China STEERThe Excellent Trainer Prize awarded to the provincial training center trainer team by The Chinese National Committee for Prevention Blindness.”A National Pilot Program of Comprehensive Training for Eyecare Teams at China's County Hospitals”, one of...READ MORE Video to to educate children on refractive errorDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe Orbis/HKI/ECF Vietnam project has produced an excellent video to to educate children on refractive error. Please watch it below. READ MORE Sightsavers Sierra Leone The shift from VAS MDA to Routine VASDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesOver the last four years, Sierra Leone has been conducting Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) as part of mass drug administration (MDA) during campaigns supported by donors. This project has contributed to four rounds of VAS MDA over...READ MORE Learning from Refractive Error (Low Vision) projectJune 3, 2016Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIn the second period of the project came the time to order all of the aids and equipment for the clinic.It was a straight forward step by step procedure that we had to undertake. It was an...READ MORE Narok Eye Unit Bucks Trend With Virtual OpticalsJune 3, 2016Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesAgainst all odds, Narok County Referral Hospital’s Eye Unit has set up an optical shop that might yet act as a model for other public hospitals in the country. Like many of the eye units supported by...READ MORE Sunderbans Eye Health Service Strengthening ProjectDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSunderbans Eye Health Service Strengthening Project has completed 2 years of implementation. An objective of the project is to improve coverage and access to affordable, quality eye health services. Multiple strategies have been devised to reach a...READ MORE Supporting government efforts in Sierra LeoneDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSince the introduction of free health care services for pregnant women, lactating mothers and under-fives by his Excellency the President of Sierra Leone on 27th April 2013, Sightsavers’ three eye care partners in the country’s Western Area,...READ MORE Increasing patient access to services in PeruDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIn Peru, according to the rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB), there are three principal barriers that people encounter when in need of cataract surgery: 1. Costs is a major barrier, people do not have the funds...READ MORE The Fred Hollows Foundation VietnamDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe two new provinces of Lam Dong and Dak Nong, where the project expanded the Community Eye Care model, were facing difficulties when the project started, but the project has since helped to set up and strengthen...READ MORE Establishment of Low Vision Services at Sekuru Kaguvi HospitalDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSekuru Kaguvi Hospital Children’s Eye Unit established low vision services for the first time to support children with low vision.A training on low vision was conducted at Sekuru Kaguvi Hospital Children’s Eye Unit from the 22nd to the...READ MORE Building the Capacity of Eye Health Staff and Facilities in KenyaDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesBefore Agnes Maiyo began working as an ophthalmic clinical officer/cataract surgeon at Iten District Hospital in 2008, the hospital didn’t offer any eye care services at all. When she returned from her training with the Kenya Medical...READ MORE Business Model of Vision Centre: Two Pilots in Public and Private SystemDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIt was widely believed in rural areas of China that wearing glasses would make eye sight worse due to the lack of quality optometry service. China has the highest prevalence of myopia in the world, however, it...READ MORE SiB: Addressing Poor Geographic RepresentationDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSEVA India & LV Prasad Eye Institute India This story highlights the work that LV Prasad Eye Institute did in response to poor geographic representation within some of their mentee hospitals.Naraindas & Morbai Budhrani Eye Centre was established...READ MORE Overcoming Barriers to Eye Health in GhanaDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesLike many developing countries, access to eye health services in Ghana is inadequate. Eye care services are provided at teaching, regional and district hospitals, and most of the district hospitals are staffed by trained ophthalmic nurses. Unfortunately,...READ MORE Increasing Patients Access to ServicesDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesDiabetes Mellitus (DM) is a public health issue in Pakistan, the sixth largest country of the world with a population of 192 million1. Pakistan is one of 20 countries of the International Diabetes Federation of the Middle...READ MORE Community health care impacts eye surgery in ZambiaDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIn the second half of 2015 Orbis Africa enhanced a strategy to work with Zambia’s community healthcare workers to increase the access to, and uptake of, eye surgery. The strategy was based on a partnership with neighbourhood...READ MORE
Working together with people with disabilities to tackle preventable blindnessJuly 19, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesWorld Sight Day (WSD) is an annual, global event held on the second Thursday of October every year. The aim is to call global attention to the prevention of blindness, visual impairment, and improvement of general eye...READ MORE Counselling helps increase patient referral rates in PeruJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesBetween July 2014 and June 2018, the Combatting Blindness in Peru project engaged six partner health clinics working across 13 regions, with support from the Seeing is Believing initiative, funded by Standard Chartered and CBM. As well...READ MORE “Stronger Together” – Travelling in Groups to Improve Women’s Access to Eye Care in BangladeshJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesA key barrier for women to access eye care identified through our KAP study, gender analysis and field survey, was women’s inability to travel from their homes to hospitals to receive diagnosis and treatment. Although this looks...READ MORE Improving Patient Referral Systems in TanzaniaJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesOphthalmic Assistant Mr. Gisbon conducting training to Village Health Workers on Primary Eye Care and how to improve referral system.Over the last 30 months, through the SiB project, Sightsavers has collaborated with all seven districts councils in...READ MORE Strengthening patient referral systems and diagnosis and treatment services in PakistanJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to services Strengthening referral systems and diagnosis and treatment services in three hospitals in Pakistan has resulted in more than 50,000 diabetic patients being screened and treated for Sight-Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy in four years.Sightsavers ‘Seeing is Believing’ project -...READ MORE Revolutionizing School Screening in Kenya through PeekJanuary 22, 2019Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesMeshack is screened by his teacher, using the Peek app.Worldwide, 19 million children are visually impaired, with three quarters living in low-income countries. In Kenya, the prevalence of visual impairment among children ages 6 to 20 is...READ MORE Sightsavers India, Making change using culture as a tool – Community Health Awareness Program using Theatre in SundarbansJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe correction of refractive error with appropriate spectacles has proven to be one of the most cost-effective vision improving interventions in eye care. However, findings from spectacles compliance show variation in compliance patterns around different age groups...READ MORE SEVA - Improving surgery and spectacle acceptance through community outreach in CambodiaJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesMrs. Hin Touch with her granddaughter at the eye unit after her eyesight restoration surgeries.Reaching people who need eye care services remains a challenge around the world. Convincing these people to accept eye care services – when...READ MORE Sightsavers Pakistan - Strategies to Ensure Treatment ComplianceJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesEarly detection, regular check-up’s, timely treatment and diabetes management have a direct impact on the development, progress and regression of diabetic retinopathy. Sightsavers has introduced various strategies to ensure treatment compliance by patients identified with diabetic retinopathy in...READ MORE SEVA India - Establishing and Operating Vision Centers – Closing the Loop in Eye Care DeliveryJuly 12, 2018SiB Increasing Surgical Uptake, Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesStaff at Raya vision center utilizing the new Skype-based telemedicine communication suite.Successfully establishing and managing vision centers is an area of interest for many Global Sight Initiative hospitals. Many mentors are working with their mentees to implement...READ MORE Sightsavers & The Fred Hollows Foundation Pakistan - Improving Cataract Surgery & Spectacles AcceptanceJuly 12, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesCataract is responsible for over half of the blindness, followed by trachoma, childhood blindness, uncorrected refractive errors in Pakistan. Under the ‘Seeing is Believing’ initiative of the Standard Chartered Bank and with the support of partner organisations,...READ MORE Video to educate parents on Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)July 11, 2018Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe Orbis/HKI/ECF Vietnam project has produced an excellent video to to educate children on Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP).Please watch it below:READ MORE Improving Uptake of Cataract Surgery in North Western Province, ZambiaDecember 22, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesImproving Uptake of Cataract Surgery in North Western Province, ZambiaCataract is the leading cause of avoidable blindness in North-Western Province, Zambia, mostly affecting elderly populations. Economically, North-Western Province is the least developed province in the country and...READ MORE Patient Access: Piloting Approaches to Reach People with Diabetes for DR Screening in Rural Areas of Yunnan, ChinaDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesPatient Access: Piloting Approaches to Reach People with Diabetes for DR Screening in Rural Areas of Yunnan, ChinaOne out of four people with diabetes lives in China. China has the world’s biggest diabetes population with a total of...READ MORE Behaviour Change Communication - A New Approach to CommunicationDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesHelen Keller International Myanmar – Behaviour Change CommunicationA New Approach to CommunicationIn Myanmar, approaches to education tend to be based on repetition and rote learning. “Adult education,” with its emphasis on participation, discussion and drawing on the...READ MORE Excellent Trainer Prize awarded to provincial training center trainer team by The Chinese National Committee for Prevention BlindnessDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesOrbis China STEERThe Excellent Trainer Prize awarded to the provincial training center trainer team by The Chinese National Committee for Prevention Blindness.”A National Pilot Program of Comprehensive Training for Eyecare Teams at China's County Hospitals”, one of...READ MORE Video to to educate children on refractive errorDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe Orbis/HKI/ECF Vietnam project has produced an excellent video to to educate children on refractive error. Please watch it below. READ MORE Sightsavers Sierra Leone The shift from VAS MDA to Routine VASDecember 21, 2017Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesOver the last four years, Sierra Leone has been conducting Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) as part of mass drug administration (MDA) during campaigns supported by donors. This project has contributed to four rounds of VAS MDA over...READ MORE Learning from Refractive Error (Low Vision) projectJune 3, 2016Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIn the second period of the project came the time to order all of the aids and equipment for the clinic.It was a straight forward step by step procedure that we had to undertake. It was an...READ MORE Narok Eye Unit Bucks Trend With Virtual OpticalsJune 3, 2016Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesAgainst all odds, Narok County Referral Hospital’s Eye Unit has set up an optical shop that might yet act as a model for other public hospitals in the country. Like many of the eye units supported by...READ MORE Sunderbans Eye Health Service Strengthening ProjectDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSunderbans Eye Health Service Strengthening Project has completed 2 years of implementation. An objective of the project is to improve coverage and access to affordable, quality eye health services. Multiple strategies have been devised to reach a...READ MORE Supporting government efforts in Sierra LeoneDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSince the introduction of free health care services for pregnant women, lactating mothers and under-fives by his Excellency the President of Sierra Leone on 27th April 2013, Sightsavers’ three eye care partners in the country’s Western Area,...READ MORE Increasing patient access to services in PeruDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIn Peru, according to the rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB), there are three principal barriers that people encounter when in need of cataract surgery: 1. Costs is a major barrier, people do not have the funds...READ MORE The Fred Hollows Foundation VietnamDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesThe two new provinces of Lam Dong and Dak Nong, where the project expanded the Community Eye Care model, were facing difficulties when the project started, but the project has since helped to set up and strengthen...READ MORE Establishment of Low Vision Services at Sekuru Kaguvi HospitalDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSekuru Kaguvi Hospital Children’s Eye Unit established low vision services for the first time to support children with low vision.A training on low vision was conducted at Sekuru Kaguvi Hospital Children’s Eye Unit from the 22nd to the...READ MORE Building the Capacity of Eye Health Staff and Facilities in KenyaDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesBefore Agnes Maiyo began working as an ophthalmic clinical officer/cataract surgeon at Iten District Hospital in 2008, the hospital didn’t offer any eye care services at all. When she returned from her training with the Kenya Medical...READ MORE Business Model of Vision Centre: Two Pilots in Public and Private SystemDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIt was widely believed in rural areas of China that wearing glasses would make eye sight worse due to the lack of quality optometry service. China has the highest prevalence of myopia in the world, however, it...READ MORE SiB: Addressing Poor Geographic RepresentationDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesSEVA India & LV Prasad Eye Institute India This story highlights the work that LV Prasad Eye Institute did in response to poor geographic representation within some of their mentee hospitals.Naraindas & Morbai Budhrani Eye Centre was established...READ MORE Overcoming Barriers to Eye Health in GhanaDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesLike many developing countries, access to eye health services in Ghana is inadequate. Eye care services are provided at teaching, regional and district hospitals, and most of the district hospitals are staffed by trained ophthalmic nurses. Unfortunately,...READ MORE Increasing Patients Access to ServicesDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesDiabetes Mellitus (DM) is a public health issue in Pakistan, the sixth largest country of the world with a population of 192 million1. Pakistan is one of 20 countries of the International Diabetes Federation of the Middle...READ MORE Community health care impacts eye surgery in ZambiaDecember 17, 2015Sib--Increasing patient access to servicesIn the second half of 2015 Orbis Africa enhanced a strategy to work with Zambia’s community healthcare workers to increase the access to, and uptake of, eye surgery. The strategy was based on a partnership with neighbourhood...READ MORE