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Seeing is Believing: Increasing patient access to and uptake of services

Introducing the CBM Zimbabwe Low Vision and Albinism Project

April 29, 2020

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Albinism in Africa and indeed in Zimbabwe; is a condition that is widely misunderstood which therefore results in discrimination of people with albinism. In most cases discrimination starts at family level which usually causes a child to...

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Working together with people with disabilities to tackle preventable blindness

July 19, 2019

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World 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...

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Counselling helps increase patient referral rates in Peru

January 22, 2019

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Between 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...

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“Stronger Together” – Travelling in Groups to Improve Women’s Access to Eye Care in Bangladesh

January 22, 2019

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A 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...

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Improving Patient Referral Systems in Tanzania

January 22, 2019

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Ophthalmic 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...

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Strengthening patient referral systems and diagnosis and treatment services in Pakistan

January 22, 2019

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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 -...

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Revolutionizing School Screening in Kenya through Peek

January 22, 2019

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Meshack 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...

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Sightsavers India, Making change using culture as a tool – Community Health Awareness Program using Theatre in Sundarbans

July 12, 2018

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The 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...

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SEVA - Improving surgery and spectacle acceptance through community outreach in Cambodia

July 12, 2018

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Mrs. 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...

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Sightsavers Pakistan - Strategies to Ensure Treatment Compliance

July 12, 2018

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Early 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...

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SEVA India - Establishing and Operating Vision Centers – Closing the Loop in Eye Care Delivery

July 12, 2018

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Staff 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...

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Sightsavers & The Fred Hollows Foundation Pakistan - Improving Cataract Surgery & Spectacles Acceptance

July 12, 2018

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Cataract 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,...

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Video to educate parents on Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)

July 11, 2018

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The Orbis/HKI/ECF Vietnam project has produced an excellent video to to educate children on Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). Please watch it below:

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Improving Uptake of Cataract Surgery in North Western Province, Zambia

December 22, 2017

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Improving Uptake of Cataract Surgery in North Western Province, Zambia Cataract 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...

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Patient Access: Piloting Approaches to Reach People with Diabetes for DR Screening in Rural Areas of Yunnan, China

December 21, 2017

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Patient Access: Piloting Approaches to Reach People with Diabetes for DR Screening in Rural Areas of Yunnan, China One out of four people with diabetes lives in China. China has the world’s biggest diabetes population with a total of...

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Behaviour Change Communication - A New Approach to Communication

December 21, 2017

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Helen Keller International Myanmar – Behaviour Change Communication A New Approach to Communication In 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...

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Excellent Trainer Prize awarded to provincial training center trainer team by The Chinese National Committee for Prevention Blindness

December 21, 2017

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Orbis China STEER The 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...

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Video to to educate children on refractive error

December 21, 2017

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The Orbis/HKI/ECF Vietnam project has produced an excellent video to to educate children on refractive error. Please watch it below.

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Sightsavers Sierra Leone The shift from VAS MDA to Routine VAS

December 21, 2017

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Over 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...

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Learning from Refractive Error (Low Vision) project

June 3, 2016

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In 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...

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Narok Eye Unit Bucks Trend With Virtual Opticals

June 3, 2016

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Against 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...

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Sunderbans Eye Health Service Strengthening Project

December 17, 2015

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Sunderbans 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...

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Supporting government efforts in Sierra Leone

December 17, 2015

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Since 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,...

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Increasing patient access to services in Peru

December 17, 2015

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In 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...

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The Fred Hollows Foundation Vietnam

December 17, 2015

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The 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...

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Establishment of Low Vision Services at Sekuru Kaguvi Hospital

December 17, 2015

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Sekuru 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...

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Building the Capacity of Eye Health Staff and Facilities in Kenya

December 17, 2015

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Before 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...

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Business Model of Vision Centre: Two Pilots in Public and Private System

December 17, 2015

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It 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...

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SiB: Addressing Poor Geographic Representation

December 17, 2015

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SEVA 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...

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Overcoming Barriers to Eye Health in Ghana

December 17, 2015

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Like 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,...

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Increasing Patients Access to Services

December 17, 2015

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Diabetes 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...

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Community health care impacts eye surgery in Zambia

December 17, 2015

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In 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...

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