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More about the WHO Eye Care Competency Framework

02.03.2022

Mitasha Yu

Mitasha Yu explains more about the WHO Eye Care Competency Framework (ECCF), a tool that will assist with maintaining an effective eye care workforce.

Gender Equity Webinar: Diverse voices drive better eye health

01.02.2022

This webinar covers applying an intersectionality lens – the way factors such as race, class, gender, and other identities combine to affect lived experiences differently – to ensure we illuminate, track and monitor inequities in eye health.

Policy dialogues and IPEC resources

09.12.2021

Junu Shrestha

Eye Health & Climate Action: Responsible Consumption & Production

06.12.2021

This virtual event calls upon the sector to mitigate its carbon footprint, reduce its environmental impact and support climate resilience.

Advocacy to Action: Integrating vision into the SDGs

08.06.2021

This webinar brought together leaders from within and beyond the eye health sector to discuss the positioning of eye health as an integral part of the development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Universal Health Coverage and Eye Health: New Targets for a New Decade

02.06.2021

This webinar reviews eye health as part of Universal Health Coverage and the implementation of two new ambitious global targets for 2030.

IAPB Vision Atlas: Inequality – Gender

13.05.2021

Anthea Burnett

International Women’s Day 2021

08.03.2021

Sumrana Yasmin

Sumrana Yasmin explains why gender equity is important in eye care.

Geraldine Byrne Nason on Women and Girls

08.03.2021

Geraldine Byrne Nason

Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on why it's important we place women and girls at the centre of eye health.

Global Eye Health – One Billion Untreated

17.02.2021

1.1 billion people were living with untreated vision impairment in 2020, and this is expected to grow to 1.8 billion by 2050. Yet over 90% of vision loss could be prevented or treated with existing, highly cost-effective interventions.

IAPB Webinar: WHO’s work building on the recommendations of the World Report on Vision

17.07.2020

Alarcos Cieza / Stuart Keel

Financing Eye Health – Africa Region

24.10.2019

Opportunities and challenges to financing eye health, with insights and learnings from key members in the Africa region.