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• What exactly is the World Report on Vision?!
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• Editorial Septiembre 2019: Dia Mundial De La Visión (W.S.D.) 2019
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• Editorial Junio 2019: Presencia de IAPB - XXXIV Congreso PAAO celebrado en Cancún - 25 al 29 de Mayo 2019
• Médicos Oftalmólogos Solidarios en el Chaco Salteño de Argentina
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• Prevención de Ceguera, un Proyecto con Pasión
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• Noticias: Junio 2019
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• Go Sunny For Sight“目”浴阳光 : Tokyo 东京
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• Yuddha Sapkota, certified RAAB 7 Survey trainer
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• Provision of comprehensive quality eye care in the Western Regions of Tanzania
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• The importance of learning
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• Prevent Blindness 8th annual Focus on Eye Health National Summit
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• IAPB WPR Focus: Quarter one in the Western Pacific region
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• Singapore to host IAPB General Assembly in 2020
• WHO launches global consultations for a new Roadmap on neglected tropical diseases
• 3rd World Congress of Optometry Education Programme Announced
• Eye health can no longer be overlooked in universal health coverage
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• Editorial: Boletín Trimestral Latinoamérica Marzo 2019
• Cursos en Prevencion de Ceguera en Congreso Panamericano De Oftalmologia - Cancún 2019
• La Plena Inclusión Social y Laboral, Requiere de Autonomía
• Asociación Mexicana de Retinopatía Diabética A. C.
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• Visión de solidaridad La historia de la Asociación Civil Divino Niño Jesús
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• Noticias: Marzo 2019
• The British Council for Prevention of Blindness 2019 Grants
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• Call for Programme Submissions – Council of Members 2019
• IAPB Africa Knowledge: Publications
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• WHO Launches Wide Ranging Reforms
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• Commemorating Universal Health Coverage Day – uniting for collective action
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• First Project under the IAPB-Rotary International Service Partnership
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• Blindness in children: declining magnitude over time
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• El Valor de la Educación en la Prevención de Ceguera Asociada a Diabetes
• Coalición Barómetro
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• Programa de Atención Ocular Comunitaria en Argentina - Media Luna Oftalmológica
• El Valor de los Filtros Como Apoyo a la Rehabilitación Visual
• Detección temprana de primera vez, realizada por optometristas y médicos no oftalmólogos
• Cambiando el modo en que el mundo ve: Cómo una enfermera y su paciente se reunieron a bordo del Avión Hospital Oftalmológico de Orbis
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• Leaving an impact: Screening in schools for the visually impaired
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• Child Health must include Eye Health
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• Film: A life with Sight
• The Retinopathy of Prematurity Network (ROP-NET): bringing essential eye care to premature babies
• ICEH's free online course on Eliminating Trachoma starts Jan 2019
• ICEH's Course on Diabetic Eye Disease: Strengthening Services to Prevent Blindness
• ICEH's free online course on Global Blindness starts Jan 2019
• Call for Nominations for 2019 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Maximizing Diabetic Retinopathy Visual Impairment Control through Diversified Approaches
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• Tackling Diabetic Retinopathy in the occupied Palestinian territories
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• Helping millions get access to diabetic retinopathy care in Barisal
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• #EyeCareEveryWhere Photo Competition Winners
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• Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Centre launch music festival for World Sight Day
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• Uso de Telemedicina Como Soporte del Programa de Residencia en el Instituto Regional de Oftalmología. Trujillo – Perú
• Los Congresos Panamericanos En Mexico
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• Potenciando la Capacitación Multidisciplinaria en la Salud Visual
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• IAPB Africa Knowledge: reviews and publications
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• Brien Holden Vision Institute at the CSTL Conference
• Orbis Africa: Human Resources in the spotlight
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• WHO: New Strategy for NCDs
• IAPB Africa Advocacy Capacity Building Workshop
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• CoM 2018: IAPB Africa Update
• IAPB Africa Editorial: An Exciting Time for Eye Health
• World Report on Vision to release in 2019
• Western Pacific Cataract Surgery Outcomes Meeting
• IAPB Council: A Roundup
• Delegate Picks for the photo competition from the IAPB Council 2018
• The vision of 27 million children
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• Investigating and addressing vision-related problems in high-poverty schools
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• WSD Photo Competition: Popular Picks At the IAPB Council
• IAPB Welcomes Two New Trustees
• The Chinese Government takes steps to tackle myopia in children
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• He Eye Specialists Hospital Holds Forum on Sight for Africa
• The Global Disability Summit - Potential game-changer for disability inclusion, assistive technology and eye care
• Free online course on Diabetic Eye Disease
• Fighting an epidemic in the Pacific Islands: PNG
• How do we make sure we leave no one behind?
• Dr Akio Kanai, Recipient of the Brien Holden Humanitarian Award
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• IAPB Committee and Work Group meetings 2018
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• Saying Goodbye – Changes at IAPB
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• ATscale: A Global Partnership for Assistive Technology launched
• New research reveals glasses boost worker productivity
• Editorial: Boletín Trimestral Latinoamérica Julio 2018
• Nuestra Historia y Logros en el Servicio a la Comunidad
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• Misión de Nuestro Centro Mexicano de Salud Visual, Ac
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• Resumen de lo importante en ARVO 2018
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• #EyeCareEverywhere Photo Competition 2018 is live!
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• The COECSA/WACS Sub-Specialist Fellowship Development Workshop
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• Webinar: WHO Core Competencies in Africa
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• International Eye Health Course at ICEH
• VFAN wins 2018 Bond Innovation Award
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• Welcoming 2018 at Seeing is Believing
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• Vacancies: International Blind Sports Federation
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• Latest Global Blindness & VI prevalence figures published in Lancet
• Closing a SiB Project in Viet Nam
• Bringing eye health to the Isoka district, Zambia
• First Optometry School to be established in Haiti
• The Commonwealth’s policy brief on the control of avoidable blindness and vision loss
• Advocating for eye health - An update from IAPB Latin America
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• IAPB welcomes new members
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• Bid to win Seeing is Believing-Liverpool Football Cup (LFC) shirt
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• SiB Webinars - Sustainability
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• Subscribe to Community Eye Health Journal (South Asia edition)
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• Dr Van Lansingh to receive the 2017 Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award
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• My challenges managing glaucoma in sub Saharan Africa
• World Glaucoma Week
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• Job listing: Regional Programme Manager - WPR
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• Call for Abstracts for the 2nd World Congress of Optometry
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• January 2017 SiB Newsletter
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• UK Charity Awards 2016 awards top prize to VFAN
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• President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Keynote speaker at 10GA
• The Cataract BOOST Story
• He Univ offers Bachelors in Optometry
• Lions Clubs Research Grants Aim to Improve Global Quality of Life
• National consultation for developing country eye health action plan
• New Grading Scales available to all optometrists - download for free
• Evidence gap maps developed by Sightsavers
• The judges of the #EyeCareForAll Photo Competition
• #EyeCareForAll Photo Competition - Winners and Runners-up
• Thank You, Champalimaud Foundation!
• World Sight Day 2015
• Up to one billion people at risk of blindness by 2050
• 2016 LCIF SightFirst Research Grants
• #SnapForSight
• 10GA has its first Programme Partner: Orbis
• Biggest prize in vision awarded to innovative joint programme in Africa
• Seeing is Believing calls for Ghana project proposals
• TDR: Postgraduate Training Support
• Australia loses sight of International Aid Commitments
• New School of Optometry in Oaxaca, Mexico
• A letter from Medellin
• A Taste of Durban
• Helen Keller on the new 10 Dollar bill #TheNew10
• Cataract Surgery Protocol - Nepal
• Myanmar hosts a key workshop
• Prof Naidoo appointed Interim CEO of Brien Holden Vision Institute
• Dr APJ Abdul Kalam: A Life Dedicated to Science
• SiB Newsletter now live
• Brien Holden: An Eye Health Champion
• Prof Brien Holden: A Legacy that will live on
• ‘Eye Health Leaders’ to be felicitated in China
• Revo partners with Bono to Fight Vision Impairment
• Vision Aid Overseas’ New Online Learning Portal to Support Optometry Graduates in Zambia
• Taking a Systems Approach to Eye Health
• IAPB and members support UHC advocacy letter to IAEG
• Light for the World seeks new International Director
• Optometry Giving Sight's World Sight Day Challenge '15
• 10GA: Change of dates
• A life dedicated to the underprivileged
• 2 million!
• Dr. Helena Ndume to be Awarded U.N. Nelson Mandela Prize
• IAPB Regional Workshop: Europe
• New Report Adopts CSC as Health Indicator
• Report on Tracking Universal Health Coverage Adopts Cataract Surgical Coverage as Key Indicator
• Dr Adrian Hopkins Awarded MBE
• Latin America Regional Meet in Panama
• #EyeCareForAll Photo Competition launched
• LVPEI shares key resources and videos on Retinoblastoma
• Small Grants for Africa-based Research
• Diploma in Eye Health Management (DEHM) program
• Global activity to end avoidable blindness – Are we having an impact?
• New study: Myopia is becoming more common across Europe
• BCPB Grants 2015
• World Bank report: cataract surgery an 'essential intervention'
• Focus on Eye Health: National Summit
• IAPB Board meetings in Dubai
• Ebola and Eye care
• Nepal earthquake
• New SiB pages on the IAPB website!
• Pixels in Fundus Cameras: How many do you need?
• Catalytic partnership praised at IAPB Africa meeting
• Romania's first ROP Workshop
• Urgent call: DR Barometer Survey
• SDGs: what's in it for eye health?
• RAAB Repository: a new resource for eye health research and planning
• Tackling human resources for eye health challenges
• Reflections on the launch of DFID's new 'Disability Framework'
• Access to health is not a luxury it's a right
• Free Online course on Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
• Bayer HealthCare Supports World Sight Day Event
• Bob McMullan on the IAPB WSD14 Event - and the future
• Vietnam's first Optometry School
• VISION 2020 Latin America meeting, Mexico City
• Focus on #Sight
• Ebola
• Mexico City to host global World Sight Day event
• Advocating to help Vietnam have better access to eye health
• Carl Zeiss Supported Centre in Sudan
• Report on Costs of Exclusion & Gains of Inclusion of People with Disabilities
• New Eye Clinic in Mozambique
• Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Peru, marks 20 years
• Regional Action Plan: PAHO
• Universal Eye Health: Three important documents
• IAPB seeks Project Accountant
• Regional Plan for Universal Eye Health: Western Pacific
• Australia funds its first 'National Eye Health Survey'
• 'Neglected Sensory Diseases' - the NSDs (you heard it here first)
• IAPB Advocacy Training Workshop, Accra, Ghana
• IAPB runs in the 'Great City Race 2014'
• WBU attends 7th Conference of States Parties to the UNCRPD
• Durban Calling
• GAP Update
• Commonwealth Health Partnerships & Avoidable Blindness
• Vision Aid Overseas celebrates 30th Anniversary
• VISION 2020 Workshops 2013-14 Update
• The 'Diabetic Retinopathy Barometer' project launch, Madrid
• WHO and World Bank disappoint in the latest Post-2015 thinking
• The Disability Action Plan at the World Health Assembly 2014
• Vision 2014: Seizing the Opportunity
• The Trust seeks Commonwealth Support on Avoidable Blindness
• Global health partners call on G7 to tackle NTDs
• Partnership to transform eye health in Malawi
• IAPB Board meets in Singapore
• New UK Govt report focuses attention on disability
• GBD Data: A good news story
• International Mobility Conference
• Urgent final call for participants from 42 countries to contribute now to largest global diabetic retinopathy (DR) survey
• Liverpool FC plays for Seeing is Believing
• Seeing is Believing gets a new Head
• Countdown to the 1st World Congress of Optometry
• MSc Public Health for Eye Care
• HKI Hiring Officers for NTDs Project
• LFTW performs 50,000 Cataract Surgeries
• LVPEI performs 20,000 Corneal Transplants
• Lions/PAAO Award in Blindness Prevention to Recognize Excellence
• DR Barometer Project - Survey
• Research grant by Prevent Blindness
• Jobs: Communications Officers
• Jobs: Regional Programme Manager - Latin America
• Seeing is Believing announces funding for 13 countries
• Jobs: Latin America Advisor
• IAPB supports Universal Health Coverage day
• A new era for optometry in Vietnam
• First 'National Eye Health Survey' gets funding in Australia
• 2015 António Champalimaud Vision Award
• IAPB supports a RAAB Training of Trainers
• VISION 2020 Workshop 2014-19: Eastern Mediterranean Region
• ICO issues updated Diabetic Retinopathy Guidelines
• Time to end the eye health 'neglect' in Europe
• New alliance for the global assessment of diabetic retinopathy
• The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust joins IAPB
• 2013 Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award
• IAPB Highlights 2013
• WSD13: How was this year?
• New IAPB Report on ‘Universal Eye Health’ launched on World Sight Day
• The Fred Hollows Foundation Invites Research Proposals
• The L'OCCITANE Sight Award
• Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund
• Australian Foreign Minister Launches New Study into Cost and Benefits of Ending Blindness
• Global Trachoma Survey kicks off in Ethiopia
• Seeing is Believing launches flagship East Africa Child Eye Health project

Resources

• Community-based health care during COVID-19
• IAPB Position Statement on PPE for COVID-19
• Trachoma Elimination in Africa: Lessons from two multi-country initiatives
• The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust Approach: Collaborative, credible and catalytic
• Piloting the Treatment of Retinopathy in India: Diabetic Retinopathy and Retinopathy of Prematurity
• The Pacific Diabetic Retinopathy Programme Evaluation report
• Investing in Vision - Making a Difference across the Commonwealth
• Integrated Model of Care for Diabetic Retinopathy within the Health System of Pakistan
• Integrated Model of Care for Diabetic Retinopathy within the Health System of Bangladesh
• Evaluation of the Pacific Trachoma Initiative
• Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium: Final Evaluation
• The World Report on Vision
• The Missing Billion
• Rehabilitation in health systems: guide for action
• Gender perspective of eye health in Inhambane, Mozambique
• Latin America Guide to Primary Open Angle Glaucoma
• Transition planning for Facial cleanliness and Environmental improvement
• Transition planning for mass drug administration (MDA) of Zithromax®
• Transition planning for trichiasis management services
• Onchocerciasis Advocacy Document
• Core competencies for the Eye Health Workforce in the WHO African region
• Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness and Diabetic Retinopathy Report - Papua New Guinea 2017
• A Global Compendium on Good Practice: Integrated care for diabetes and eye health
• Effect of providing near glasses on productivity among rural Indian tea workers with presbyopia (PROSPER): a randomised trial
• A Situational Analysis: Eye Care Needs of Rohingya Refugees and the Affected Bangladeshi Host Population in Cox’s Bazar District Bangladesh
• Primary Eye Care Training Manual
• Roadmap of Visual Impairment Control Program in Indonesia 2017-2030
• Gender and Blindness: Addressing inequity
• Summary Report of Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Bhutan - 2018
• School Eye Health Guidelines
• Eye Health for Women and Girls
• WHO International Consensus Conference on Vision Rehabilitation Standards
• Strengthening health systems to manage diabetic eye disease: Integrated care for diabetes and eye health
• First Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Survey in the Maldives: Prevalence and Causes of Blindness and Cataract Surgery
• Prevalence and causes of blindness, visual impairment, and cataract surgery in Timor-leste
• Position Paper on Presbyopia
• Cirugía de Catarata con Incisión Pequeña Manual [Orbis]
• GUIA PRACTICA CLINICA DE RETINOPATIA DIABETICA PARA LATINOAMERICA (2011)
• Ukrainian - English Ophthalmic Dictionary
• Polish - English Ophthalmic Dictionary
• Russian - English Ophthalmic Dictionary
• China five year National Plan for Eye Health 2016-2020
• Myanmar National Eye Health Plan 2017-2021
• Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow
• Position Paper on Self-Refraction with Adjustable Spectacles
• Position Paper on Ready Made Spectacles
• Eye care service delivery in SEA Region
• Summary of Report Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Timor-Leste - 2016
• Spectacle Coverage Report
• Situation Analysis of Optometry in Africa
• The Impact of Myopia and high Myopia
• Eye Care Service Assessment Tool (ECSAT)
• Global Estimates on the Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Diabetic Retinopathy
• Low Vision Manual - KCCO Translated [Spanish] [Portuguese]
• Diabetic Retinopathy Guidelines - ICO PAAO 2016 [Spanish]
• Summary Report of Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Maldives - 2016
• National Survey of Blindness and VI, Sri Lanka 2014-15
• Sri Lanka Comprehensive Eye Care Plan 2013 – 2017
• Action Plan for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment 2009 - 2013
• Global Action Plan--Accessible format
• A benefits framework for eliminating avoidable blindness and visual impairment
• BOOST
• Cataract Surgical Coverage
• Toolkit to advocate for disability inclusion in SDG indicators
• The Indicators Framework in support of SDGs and eye health
• SDGs Eye Health Excellence
• VISION 2020 Global Initiative: 1999
• Strategy for the Elimination of Vision Impairment from Uncorrected Refractive Error
• Cataract Surgery Protocol - Nepal
• Does Cataract Surgery Alleviate Poverty? Evidence from a Multi-Centre Intervention Study Conducted in Kenya, the Philippines and Bangladesh
• Assessment of cataract surgical outcomes in settings where follow-up is poor: PRECOG, a multicentre observational study
• Low Vision Care in Africa
• Tracking universal health coverage
• Tracking universal health coverage: First global monitoring report
• Planning for VISION 2020 at the District Level: A Manual
• Prevalence of refractive error in Europe
• Increasing Prevalence of Myopia in Europe and the Impact of Education
• The Economic Burden of Vision Loss and Eye Disorders in the United States
• The Emerging Epidemic of Diabetic Retinopathy in India
• Essential List for Cataract Surgery
• Essential List for Cataract Surgery
• Essential List for Cataract Surgery
• Guidelines for School Eye Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Situational analysis and strategy for change in Myanmar
• Epidemiology of Blindness in Nepal
• Inclusion made easy in eye health programs
• IAPB Strategic Framework 2013-2017
• Retinopathy of prematurity: A global perspective of the epidemics, population of babies at risk and implications for control
• Gender and Blindness in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Gender & Blindness - initiatives to address inequity
• Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• ICO Guidelines for Diabetic Eye Care
• The number of people with glaucoma worldwide in 2010 and 2020
• Glaucoma
• A Global Survey of Low Vision Service Provision
• Review of recent surveys on blindness and visual impairment in Latin America
• How Effective is Low Vision Service Provision? A Systematic Review
• Zithromax® in the Elimination of Blinding Trachoma A Program Manager’s Guide
• Implementing the SAFE Strategy for Trachoma Control
• Progress report on elimination of Trachoma, 2013
• The End In Sight - ICTC Global Strategic Plan
• Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error
• Global vision impairment due to uncorrected presbyopia
• Global magnitude of visual impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors in 2004
• IAPB Africa Regional Advocacy Strategy 2014-2018
• How to develop a national advocacy strategy on Human Resources for Eye Health
• The Economic Costs of Exclusion and Gains of Inclusion of People with Disabilities
• Investing in Vision
• Essential Equipment list - DR
• IAPB Essential Equipment List for Trachomatous Trichiasis
• IAPB Essential Equipment List for Diabetic Retinopathy
• Situational analysis of eye health care in Zambia
• Eye Health System Assessment in Ghana
• Eye Health System Assessment in Sierra Leone
• Eye Health System Assessment in Lao PDR
• Eye Health System Assessment in Cambodia
• IAPB Highlights 2014
• IAPB Highlights 2013
• IAPB Africa Human Resources for Eye Health Strategic Plan 2014-2023
• WHO Global Action Plan 2014-2019
• WHO Global Action Plan 2014-2019
• Position Paper on Recycled Spectacles
• Mapping Human Resources for Eye Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress towards VISION 2020
• Addressing the Eye Health Work Force Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing
• Western Pacific Regional Action Plan
• Regional Action Plan for Universal Eye Health: Americas
• Regional Action Plan for Universal Eye Health: Western Pacific
• Regional Action Plan for Universal Eye Health: Eastern Mediterranean
• IAPB Africa HReH Strategy
• Monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage
• Open Working Group Proposed Goals and Targets (as of 2nd June)
• Causes of vision loss worldwide, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis
• Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Numbers and Prevalence
• Guidelines for Eye Health Committees
• IAPB position on GBD data
• IAPB Advocacy Guide
• WHO - Global Initiative for the Elimination of Blindness
• RAAB + DR Survey Report - Moldova 2012
• Eye Health Care in Central and South Eastern Europe in 2009
• DRWG April 2013 Minutes
• DRWG Draft TOR
• The accomplishments of the global initiative VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and the focus for the next 8 years
• Global Human Resource Development Assessment for Comprehensive Eye Care
• IAPB Highlights 2012
• Eye Health Systems Assessment (EHSA)
• BOT Minutes Hyderabad
• Workshop Report: A VISION 2020 Workshop on Research for Global Blindness Prevention
• VISION 2020 Workshops 2011 Report
• IAPB Report - State of the World Sight 2010
• National Eye Health Coordinator Manual
• VISION 2020 Action Plan 2006-2011
• WHO Action Plan for the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment 2009-2013
• Blindness and Non Communicable Diseases
• School Health Programme Advocacy Paper
• The G20 and VISION 2020
• Integrating Eye Health into School Health Programmes
• Eye Test Model for Older People in Care - The Netherlands
• The Positive Economics of Blindness Prevention
• Eye Health: Partnering Opportunities in the Nutrition Sector
• IAPB Engagement with the World Bank
• UN Agencies and IAPB
• Blindness and the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Health Systems and Eye Health
• Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
• Vision Centre Model

Assembly Resources

• Measuring programme effectiveness, sustainability, and impact
• Vision Aid Overseas
• Sightsavers
• Sight and Life
• Refractive Errors
• Partnership Beyond Eye Care
• Other
• Innovation to Improve Access and Equity
• Inclusive Development
• Glaucoma
• Effectiveness, Sustainability and Impact
• Diabetic Retinopathy and ARMD
• Community Engagement and Eye Care
• Childhood Blindness and Refractive Errors
• Cataract
• ORBIS
• Optometry Giving Sight
• Operation Eyesight Universal
• L'Occitane
• Lions Club International Foundation
• IAPB Procurement Consortium
• Essilor
• Deepak Enterprises
• Clarity Medical Systems
• CBM
• Brien Holden Vision Institute
• Appasamy Associates
• Course 19: Eye Health for Children
• Special Session: Eye Care for Everyone
• Course 17: Neglected Tropical Diseases & Non Communicable Diseases, Link to Eye Health
• Course 16: Gender and Blindness
• Course 15: Challenges for Equity in Low Vision Care
• Course 14/18: Glaucoma – Part 1 & 2
• Course 13: Effective Advocacy
• Course 12: Financing Eye Care Institutions in Low Income Countries
• Course 11: What’s New in Primary Eye Care?
• Course 10: Global Burden of Disease - Impact of Vision Loss
• Course 9: Refractive Error - Change in the Approach
• Course 8: Programme Management
• Course 7: Trachoma - Progress Towards Elimination
• Course 6: Diabetic Retinopathy
• Course 5: Data Collection and Information Management
• Course 4: Sustainability of Eye Health Systems
• Course 3: Training an Eye Care Team
• Course 2: Cataract Surgery
• Development & Millennium Development Goals
• Challenges in monitoring clinical and programme outcomes
• Social Entrepreneurship & Eye Care
• Health Systems Development
• Delivering Programmes: Success Stories
• Upscaling Blindness Prevention Efforts
• Alan Johns Lecture
• MDP 25th Anniversary Lecture
• Sir John Wilson Lecture

Members

• Instituto de Oftalmología Fundación Conde de Valenciana
• Shri Sadguru Seva Sangh Trust
• Fight for Sight
• Associação Médicos da Floresta
• Roche in Ophthalmology
• The Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
• Novartis
• Allergan
• CooperVision
• John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah
• Vision for the Poor
• German Society for Tissue Transplantation (DGFG)
• KeraLink International
• Fundación Elena Barraquer
• The Indigo Trust
• The German Committee for the Prevention of Blindness/ Deutsches Komitee zur Verhütung von Blindheit (DKVB)
• Peek Vision
• Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach (BICO)
• Global Vision 2020 (GV2020)
• Eye Foundation Hospital
• Clearly
• Hawaiian Eye Foundation (HEF)
• King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH)
• Good People International
• Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center
• Vision Trust
• The World Diabetes Foundation (WDF)
• St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group
• The Kellogg Eye Center for International Ophthalmology (KECIO)
• Centre for Eye Research Australia
• Heart to Heart Foundation
• Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre
• Dr. K. Zaman BNSB Eye Hospital, Bangladesh
• Japan National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
• Pushpagiri Vitreo Retina Institute
• Australian College of Optometry (ACO)
• Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center
• Noor Dubai Foundation
• EYElliance
• Fondation L'Occitane
• Latter-day Saint Charities
• Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex
• Fundacion Hospital Nuestra Senora de la Luz
• Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations (GAEBA)
• Eversight International
• Sight For All
• Vision for a Nation
• VisionSpring
• Bayer
• Takeo Eye Hospital
• OneDollarGlasses Association
• HelpMeSee
• Grameen Health Care Services
• Al-Basar International Foundation
• Eye Care Foundation
• Eye Samaritans International
• VISION 2020: The Right to Sight – India
• Visualiza
• Vision Impact Institute
• Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
• OneSight
• Instituto de la Vision
• Fundación Cinépolis
• Asociacion Civil “Divino Niño Jesus”
• A New Vision
• YWAM Medical Ships - Australia
• SightLife
• Prevention of Blindness Union
• Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmologia (IMO)
• Charity Vision International
• International Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Council
• Sankara Nethralaya
• Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh
• Severance Hospital, Ophthalmology Dept.
• Standard Chartered Bank
• Ver Bien Para Aprender Mejor
• 20/20 Quest
• VISION 2020 Canada
• VISION 2020 USA
• VISION 2020 Australia
• VISION 2020 Norway
• Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
• Sankara Eye Care Institutions
• Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust
• Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute
• Fundacion Oftalmologica Hugo D. Nano
• Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital
• Magrabi Foundation
• Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (JCAHPO)
• Swiss Red Cross
• Helen Keller International
• World Council of Optometry
• The Fred Hollows Foundation
• Sightsavers
• Orbis International
• Operation Eyesight
• Mectizan Donation Program
• Lions Clubs International Foundation
• Light for the World
• Impact EMR
• Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity/International
• Vision Care
• Vision Aid Overseas
• Vision UK
• VISION 2020 Australia
• South African National Council for the Blind
• Singapore Eye Research Institute
• S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution
• Seva Foundation
• Seva Canada
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
• Prevent Blindness
• Organisation pour la Prévention de la Cécité (OPC)
• Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted
• Nadi Al Bassar
• Mission for Vision
• L V Prasad Eye Institute
• Lighthouse International
• Korean Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness
• Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology (KCCO)
• International Eye Foundation (IEF)
• International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
• International Centre for Eye Health / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
• Hong Kong Society for the Blind (HKSB)
• Himalayan Cataract Project
• He Eye Specialist Hospital
• Fundacion Visión
• Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand
• Eyesight International
• Eyes Of The World
• Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute
• Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology
• C.H.E.F. International
• Combat Blindness International
• Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
• British Council for the Prevention of Blindness (BCPB)
• Brien Holden Vision Institute Foundation
• Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology
• Asian Eye Care
• Aravind Eye Care System
• Champalimaud Foundation
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• Agenzia Internazionale per la Prevenzione della Cecità-Sezione Italiana (IAPB Italy)
• CBM
• World Blind Union
• International Council of Ophthalmology