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- WBU statement for White Cane Safety
- Standard Chartered and Liverpool FC partner to tackle avoidable blindness
- Eye health and the environment – why sustainability and inclusivity go hand in hand
- Eye Inspire: A New Interview Series
- Vision Atlas: Shanghai Eye Disease Treatment and Prevention Centre Highlights Myopia
- Fiji, PNG and Tonga launch Vision Atlas
- Australians encouraged to think of their sight on World Sight Day
- “Avoidable Blindness” Set to Increase in Future
- Tomorrow is World Sight Day!
- Vision Aid Overseas to expand its Ghana programme
- IAPB Vision Atlas: Key Messages
- Noor Dubai Foundation to hold Art 4 Sight auction
- Launch of Vision UK underway
- Dr Sheila West, International Blindness Prevention recipient
- Peter Ackland To Step Down
- Eye Health Heroes collect their awards
- Noor Dubai Foundation completes 7 years
- South East Asia Day at CoM
- IAPB welcomes two new members from South-East Asia
- The Fred Hollows Foundation appoints new CEO
- Yetnebersh Nigussie, receives 2017 ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ Right Livelihood Award
- Dr Cohn, recipient of AAO Humanitarian Service Award
- World Sight Day to be celebrated in 100 Italian cities
- Call for Nominations for Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health
- Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic eliminate trachoma
- Attending the First National Eye Health Conference in China
- LVPEI Institution named after Brien Holden
- The ICO completes 160 years
- Community Eye Health Courses: LVPEI 2017
- Former President of Nepal to be Chief Guest at CoM
- CBM and Sightsavers awarded António Champalimaud Vision Award
- The vision of 18 million children
- Free online course on Eliminating Trachoma
- The Fred Hollows Foundation celebrates 25 years
- WCO announces International Optometry Award Winners
- Eye Care Working Group, Vietnam
- PacEyes Bi-Annual Conference
- IAPB WPR Chair: Amanda Davis
- IAPB WPR Coordinator: Drew Keys
- Dr Andreas Mueller returns to support WHO WPRO
- New Myopia Calculator for Practitioners
- Approved SightFirst Grants August 2017
- Building alliances for eye health in Liberia
- Abstract Submissions open for WOC 2018
- CBM to partner with Peek Vision
- Vacancies : EYElliance
- Supporting eye health – a mid-year review
- Project to tackle Trachoma in Pakistan
- Vacancies: International Blind Sports Federation
- Cataract and Mental Health
- Vacancies: Vision for a Nation Foundation (London)
- Meeting Communities as they are on Indigenous Peoples Day
- My Involvement in Aboriginal Vision Programmes
- Closing the gap in Indigenous Eye Health in Australia
- Vision Aid Overseas World Sight Day Campaign
- Rotary Partners with IAPB Members to Prevent Eye Disease
- Vision for Nation screens 2 million in Rwanda
- VLEG Data–Frequently Asked Questions
- 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
- Developing eye health competencies - An update from IAPB Africa
- The road-map towards the Global Action Plan - An update from IAPB South-East Asia
- IAPB welcomes new members
- Fast Start
- New SiB ambassador debuts at Standard Chartered Great City
- PRISM: Measuring the impact of Cataract Surgery
- IAPB and PAHO to hold workshop on Universal Eye Care
- Seeing is Believing launches Phase 3 Innovation Fund
- Tenk Yu Tru: RAAB Results Presented in Papua New Guinea
- LSHTM looking for a Project Coordinator
- Ellis Potter, Recipient of Brien Holden Humanitarian Award
- 85 million people treated for trachoma through expanded access to medicine
- Bid to win Seeing is Believing-Liverpool Football Cup (LFC) shirt
- Tracking progress on the World Report on Vision
- Record-breaking numbers of surgeries and drug distributions result in trachoma decline
- Grants for new Online Eye Banking Course
- Save the date: IAPB Vision Atlas
- Vision Aid Overseas launches urgent Appeal for Ethiopia
- Future SiB Newsletter Webinars
- Academy Award for Optometry School Development to Luigi Bilotto
- Child Sight in Vietnam
- How to participate in the #MakeVisionCount Photo Competition
- Orbis Africa hiring Director of Programme
- WBU CEO Position: Apply Now
- Management Training by Aravind
- Mubende Comprehensive Eye Health project launched in Uganda
- Charting the World Report on Vision
- World Health Assembly: A Side-Event, and a Call for a New Report
- ICTC elects a new Vice-Chair
- VISION 2020 Australia plans second National Eye Health Survey
- Improving Infant Care
- VISION 2020 INDIA elects a new Board
- #StrongerTogether Photo Story: Peter Datjin Burarrwanga
- Dissolution of VISION 2020 UK
- Improving the lives of disadvantaged communities in rural Southern Ethiopia
- Trust expands Trachoma Initiative in Uganda
- SiB Webinars - Sustainability
- Prevent Blindness announces the recipient of its 2017 Joanne Angle Investigator Award
- Developing Child Eye Health Services
- VISION 2020 UK Chief Executive steps down
- Optometry practice pledges 1% of weekly sales to Vision Aid Overseas
- ICO Staff Leadership Changes
- LSHTM looking for a Project Administrator
- World Council of Optometry invites nominations for three awards
- The Mectizan Donation Program welcomes new Deputy Director, Dr. Pascal Lutumba
- Focus On: L’OCCITANE Foundation
- Focus On: Operation Eyesight Universal
- Africa Day: Training Specialists to Treat Cataract Blindness
- Africa Day : The Remoteness of Eye Health in Ethiopia
- Focus On : Brien Holden Vision Institute
- Africa Day: Mass Drug Administration in Darfur to combat blinding trachoma
- Review of ICTC programmes highlights significant results
- Focus On: The Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted (NABP)
- Africa Day : Improving Primary Eye Care in Rwanda
- Africa Day: Supporting Advocacy Efforts through Research in Africa
- Africa Day: Let’s celebrate the Africans who are dedicated to Eye Care
- Africa Day: Bringing sight to Africa
- Orbis becomes a voice for eye health in global surgical alliance
- The Fred Hollows Foundation treats a record one million as their CEO steps down
- My experience working for a charity for the deafblind
- Focus on Eye Health: National Summit
- Braille, books and me
- WHA70 Member State Side Event: Towards Universal Eye Health
- Free Online Self-Directed Diabetic Retinopathy Grading Course now available in Farsi
- Ending the book famine : The Marrakesh Treaty
- IAPB Africa: An Update and an Annual Review
- Millennials Work to Heal Blindness
- IAPB Europe Chair attending XV Congress of the Black Sea Ophthalmological Society
- Ophthalmic Nursing: Importance and Challenges
- Celebrating International Nurses Day
- Developing Competent Allied Ophthalmic Personnel
- Merck donates $300,000 to support Neglected Tropical Disease Elimination efforts in Africa
- National Eye Health Planning underway in Moldova
- Latest vision estimates at ARVO 2017
- Building Human Resource Strategy for Eye Health in PNG
- Subscribe to Community Eye Health Journal (South Asia edition)
- VFAN welcomes Tony Hulton as interim Chief Executive
- Exhibition and Sponsorship Opportunity at Council of Members
- 2017 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health recipient
- CNIB launches Guide Dog Training Programme
- In Remembrance: Kathleen Miller, ICO Executive Director
- Saudi Ophthalmology Award to Kovin Naidoo for work in Childhood Blindness and Cataract
- Specsavers helps screen over 115, 000 patients across Zambia in 3 years
- Call to Invest in Disability-Inclusive Education
- Protecting your Eyes at Work
- VFAN Chief Executive makes way for next phase Leadership
- SiB Webinars--April 2017
- Training guide dogs
- The Trust and the Public Health Foundation of India launch ROP Initiative in Maharashtra
- Australian Government funds initiative to increase eye health access for indigenous Australians
- VISION 2020 UK launches Welsh Pathway for Children and Young People
- Dr Van Lansingh to receive the 2017 Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award
- New Fundraising and Membership Officer at IAPB
- IAPB Vision Atlas 2017: Call for case studies
- WHO Global Health Observatory adds CSC and eCSC
- #StrongerTogether Photo Story: Mothers and Children of Cataract
- UK to protect 200 million people from tropical diseases
- 10GA Videos: Symposia
- 500 Cities Initiative - Vision & Eye Health Community Response
- Applications open for new Online Graduate Certificate in Eye Banking
- 2017 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award - Call for Nominations
- Depression and Diabetic Eye Diseases: We can break the cycle
- “It’s not me!” A story about Depression and Eye Health
- No eye health without mental health: The future of person-centred eye care
- Depression is an important consideration in eye care
- Depression and Blindness - Experiences from the field
- World Sight Day 2017
- ICEH looking for a Learning Technologist
- Myanmar launches National Eye Health Plan
- SAARC Academy of Ophthalmology Congress in Kathmandu
- SiB Webinar - South East Asia & Western Pacific Regions
- SiB Webinars - Africa Region April 2017
- BCPB Grants 2017
- SEED and the Brien Holden Vision Institute collaborate on new contact lens technology
- Free online course on eliminating Trachoma
- Eritrea and Mozambique sign the Commitment to promote UEH and eliminate blinding NTDs
- Help support translation of CEHJ text for Opthalmic Nurses
- IAPB Strategy: where we’re at
- World Optometry Day
- Optometry - more than just eye care
- IAPB Position Papers on Spectacles (readymade, adaptable and recycled)
- Let’s meet: World Congress of Optometry
- Optometry is compassion
- World Water Day
- Kasungu goes trachoma-free
- Let’s provide SAFE water
- This World Water Day, let’s scale up sustainable trachoma elimination efforts
- Low Vision Curriculum
- Gender and Eye Health: Case studies needed
- Priorities for glaucoma care in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Low Vision Curriculum
- IAPB Italy marks World Glaucoma Week
- Glaucoma's Future in Asia
- Magnitude of Glaucoma- the Rationale for Glaucoma Training
- Vision Aid Overseas DFID funded programme in Ethiopia brings eye care to over 184,000 people
- CBM trial aims to improve glaucoma treatment in Africa
- My challenges managing glaucoma in sub Saharan Africa
- World Glaucoma Week
- A review of eye care service delivery in SEA Region
- Advocating integrated workforce planning in Africa
- International Women's Day
- Gender and equitable access: my experiences
- Gender barriers in Africa
- Job listing: Regional Programme Manager - WPR
- Women in eye care: my journey
- Innovative solutions for eye care for women in Bangladesh
- Better data, better planning
- Timor-Leste gets fresh data on blindness and visual impairment
- Press Release: UK Sight Charity Helps Over 1 Million People in Rwanda
- New Paper Looks at Effectiveness of Cataract Surgery in 20 Countries
- Applications open for the 37th Low Vision Awareness Programme
- ICEH course on International Eye Health
- #StrongerTogether Photo Story: Jeffrey van Haastrecht
- LCIF looking for a SightFirst Technical Advisor (TA) for Africa
- Trachoma in the Western Pacific – end in sight
- Online international course for Eye Bankers
- VFAN raises funds to provide 200,000 pairs of glasses
- Brien Holden Vision Institute partners with VFAN in Ghana
- Uganda Gets a New SiB Project
- Comprehensive Child Eye Health in Nigeria
- Free Online Course on Global blindness from ICEH
- Call for Abstracts for the 2nd World Congress of Optometry
- IAPB releases Spectacle Coverage Report
- NIH Genetics Training programme for LMIC Ophthalmologists
- January 2017 SiB Newsletter
- G.N. Rao to be inducted into Ophthalmology Hall of Fame
- Applications for MSc Public Health for eye care at LSHTM
- The challenges for Africa
- Long-term Strategy for Blindness Prevention endorsed by Vietnam PM
- Jobs: Fundraising Officer
- Lions/PAAO Award in Blindness Prevention to Recognize Excellence
- Ethiopia signs the Commitment to promote UEH and eliminate blinding NTDs
- 10 things I’ve learnt from arranging my 1st Webinars for Seeing is Believing
- 2017 Joanne Angle Investigator Award - a research grant by Prevent Blindness
- Press Release: The importance of Braille Literacy
- China: 5-year National Plan for Eye Health adopted
- Vietnam: Cataract blindness still a major health problem
- Applying AI to help the Visually Impaired
- Deadline Extension for 2017 LCIF SightFirst Research Grants
- Celebrating the achievements of the East Africa Child Eye Health programme in Uganda
- Essential Medicines for UHC
- IAPB calls for proposals to appoint 11GA's PCO
- CBM launches book “Inclusion Counts : The Economic Case for Disability-Inclusive Development”
- Clearly Vision Prize Awardees
- PNG’s Eye Health Heroes
- Dr Van Lansingh wins International Blindness Prevention Award 2016
- Value for Money of Disability Inclusive Development
- 2017 António Champalimaud Vision Award
- Vision For a Nation receives funding from USAID
- Call for Nominations for the Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health
- Seeing is Believing Delegates at 10GA
- Welcoming the new IAPB Board and farewells
- Memories from 10GA
- The British Council for Prevention of Blindness seeks UK-based trustee
- Morocco eliminates Trachoma
- ICO launches 2017 Guidelines for Diabetic Eye Care
- Landmark study reveals adults with Diabetes at unnecessary risk of vision loss
- Celebrating Eye Health Heroes
- Grant Opportunity Announcement for USAID's Child Blindness Program
- #StrongerTogether Photo Competition Winners and Runners-Up
- #StrongerTogether Photo Competition winners announced
- Committing to Universal Eye Health
- IAPB Awards honour collaboration and contributions to eye care
- IAPB Vision Atlas to be launched at 10GA
- Peruvian National Eye Institute named after Dr. Francisco Contreras Campos
- VISION 2020 UK launches Starting Point - first steps for families of vision impaired children
- VISION 2020: The Right to Sight – India celebrates World Sight Day
- River Blindness Eliminated in Guatemala
- Major League Baseball Players Trust and Our Children’s Vision Take Aim at Avoidable Blindness
- Sight: The Story of Vision - First Film Color-Adapted for the Color Blind
- Bid on the Mascot Package for Liverpool FC to raise funds for SiB
- Vision for a Nation Foundation Chief Executive wins Top Charity Award
- Candidates for the IAPB Board announced
- LIGHT FOR THE WORLD looking for Programme Development Officer
- The Seva Foundation seeks new Executive Director
- Community Eye Health Courses by LV Prasad Eye Institute
- The Clearly campaign: why new technology will help the whole world to see
- Optometry Giving Sight leads coalition in support of World Sight Day Challenge
- Focus Initiative Webinar by Prevent Blindness
- Project Admin and Manager position open at PHFI India
- Watch Liverpool FC train to raise funds for Seeing is Believing
- Head of Finance Maternity cover
- MDP announces new Director
- Registrations open for WOC2018 in Barcelona
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) Launches Priority Assistive Products List
- Optometry Giving Sight History
- Kids See: Success Initiative
- Seeing is Believing (SiB) announces funding for Kenya and China
- Study Finds Vision Loss Due to Diabetes is Rising Globally
- Engaging the Private Sector: Everyone’s Business
- Call for Projects by L'OCCITANE Foundation
- Orbis and He Eye Hospital partner in Shenyang, China
- Call for Papers: Ophthalmic Epidemiology
- VISION 2020 India’s Action Plan for Arunachal Pradesh state
- Expanding Access to Universal Eye Care Across Five Provinces in Cambodia
- Online course on eliminating Trachoma
- Rapid Assessment of Blindness survey: Timor-Leste
- "Eliminating Trachoma: Accelerating Towards 2020” launched
- Prevent Blindness launches new initiative
- Marrakesh Treaty reaches 20 ratifications needed to enter into force
- James Chen Introduces Clearly – a global campaign to help the world to see
- Orbis looking for Consultant for Evaluation of Capacity Building Programme
- Nominations open for the IAPB Board
- HelpMeSee in Top 10 Most Innovative Charities at Classy Awards
- New report on socio-economic benefits of investing in eyeglasses
- Vale Kazuichi Konyama
- Our Children’s Vision: a call to action for child eye care
- Clearly Vision Prize calling for innovations in eye care
- Pioneering Research in Rwanda’s National Eye Care Services launched
- UK Charity Awards 2016 awards top prize to VFAN
- #StrongerTogether Photo Competition launched
- Nominees for IAPB Officers Announced
- SiB Webinars: Africa Region
- Focus on Eye Health: National Summit
- Maldives Dissemination Workshop
- Financing for universal eye health: 8 Reflections on UHC
- The ICO publishes paper for global ban on consumer fireworks
- International Workshop on Cataract Prevention and Treatment
- Attention to eye care as ageing strategy aims to maximise health and well-being of older persons
- Head of Dept. Ophthalmology vacancy at CCBRT
- IAPB Regional Chair Nominees finalised
- Vision for a Nation Shortlisted for the UK Charity Awards 2016
- Sri Lanka releases latest Blindness Survey data
- BCPB Grants 2016
- Eye Fund 2: interested?
- Primary Eye Care: The Rwanda Model
- CCBRT looking for a Paediatric Ophthalmologist
- Nominations announced for IAPB Regional Chairs
- Why So Many Children Around The World Could Go Blind
- Vision 2020 Australia’s advocacy in an election year
- Seeing is Believing grants encourage innovators to see things differently
- Our Children’s Vision launches to combat health crisis
- Request for Proposals to Host 11th General Assembly in 2020
- IAPB Member Survey: We Asked You Said
- Let us all #PledgeForParity
- IAPB and L’OCCITANE Foundation announce ‘Eye Health Heroes’ 2016
- Regional Chairs: Women onboard?
- Access to online services: 20 European NGOs tell EU ministers ‘no one should be left behind’
- Nominations open for IAPB Regional Chairs
- ICO learning document on Uncorrected Refractive Error
- Take the survey on 'Sustainability' in eye care
- LCIF looking for a Regional Program Specialist
- What a difference a GAP makes
- ICO Issues Guidelines for Glaucoma Eye Care
- The Miami Declaration
- The Maldives' first RAAB—aided by smartphones!
- The L'OCCITANE Sight Awards 2016
- The Mectizan Donation Program joins 10GA as Programme Partner
- Optometry Giving Sight announces new Global Board
- Half the world to be short-sighted by 2050
- The WHO Survey on Assistive Devices
- WHO's survey on essential assistive products
- Sankara’s SERVIS to transform outreach in community eye care
- VISION 2020 Norway has a new board
- Workshop on Post-Disaster management in Nepal
- Vision for a Nation awards a grant to accelerate the development of smart phone-based eye care tools
- Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health
- Eye Care included in Key WHO Human Resource Strategy
- SiB Impact Reports!
- Help Sought for Database of Accessible Book Sources
- Pioneering New Eye & Ear Instrument Launched
- Diabetes Eye Health: a Guide for Health Professionals
- Sightsavers seeks Project Coordinator for ICTC
- Approved SightFirst grants for January 2016
- Malawi Optometry Association holds inaugural meeting
- Directory of training programs by AOI
- David Donoghue to speak at 10GA
- 2016 Joanne Angle Investigator Award - a research grant by Prevent Blindness
- Sightsavers CEO honoured
- An Accessible GAP document
- LVPEI announces 2016 CEH courses
- Trainers Training in Scientific Optical Dispensing
- Farewells
- World Blind Union hiring Human Rights Analyst
- CHOGM 2015: A 'Time to See'
- Welcome to SiB December Newsletter!
- Helen Keller International Myanmar
- Phase V projects in Mongolia
- Influencing Government to reduce cost of cataract surgeries in public hospitals
- Increasing Patients Access to Services
- Community health care impacts eye surgery in Zambia
- Overcoming Barriers to Eye Health in Ghana
- Dr. Adrian Hopkins invested as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Universal Health Coverage, Eye Health and Accountability
- Victoria Sheffield elected as new IAPB Vice President
- 2nd Regional Meeting on the implementation of Universal Eye Health in SEAR Member states
- LCIF releases list of SightFirst 2015 Grant Awardees
- Systems Development Consultant
- Aravind Offers Two Management Courses
- Sustainable Development Goals: the way ahead
- Applications for the MSc in Public Health for Eye Care by LSHTM are open
- Formation of National Eye Committee in Indonesia
- Sight for Life Walkers to start 17-day walk across Sri Lanka
- How do we reach more women and girls?
- CBP seeking worldwide grant applications
- 500 Millionth dose of Zithromax distributed in Ethiopia
- China Power! Together for Universal Eye Health
- IAPB members come together in Beijing
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Deep Eye Care Foundation (DECF)
- Dr. K. Zaman BNSB Eye Hospital, Bangladesh
- Japan National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
- Pushpagiri Vitreo Retina Institute
- Conselho Brasileiro De Oftalmologia – CBO
- Australian College of Optometry (ACO)
- Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center
- Noor Dubai Foundation
- EYElliance
- Fondation L'Occitane
- Hormoz Chams Research Chair in Public Health Ophthalmology
- 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
- Centro Cristiano de Servicios Médicos
- 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
- The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust
- 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
- Cambridge Global Health Partnerships
- VISION 2020 Canada
- VISION 2020 USA
- VISION 2020 Australia
- VISION 2020 UK
- 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
- Project Vision Charitable Foundation Limited
- Helen Keller International
- World Council of Optometry
- The Fred Hollows Foundation
- Sightsavers
- Orbis International
- Operation Eyesight Universal
- 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 2020 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
- Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology (PICO)
- 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 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
- Beijing Tongren Hospital
- 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