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IAPB Blog is home to ideas, policy positions, findings, and stories that provides the context for eye health policy and practice. The views, ideas, technologies or policy positions in these blog posts belong to the authors and do not necessarily describe IAPB's position or views on these matters.
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World Sight Day
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21.07.2026

When World Sight Day Got Cancelled, We Found Another Way to Love Your Eyes
Featured blog

18.06.2026

Making eye care more accessible, affordable and available: lessons from Zimbabwe
Featured blog

16.06.2026

Reflections from WHA 79: Momentum, Visibility, and Global Connections
Featured blog

05.06.2026

Climate-resilient, gender-responsive eye care: why we need an integrated approach now
Featured blog

13.03.2026

Myopia Policy Brief and Guide to Advocacy Launched to Strengthen Action on Paediatric Myopia
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Member Story

17.09.2026

Prevent Blindness Joins 2026 World Sight Day Activities to Help Encourage Americans to ‘Love Your Eyes’

Sarah Hecker

  • Love Your Eyes,
  • North America,
  • Prevent Blindness,
  • World Sight Day
Member Story

16.09.2026

World Sight Day: 5 Million Reasons Eye Care Can’t Wait

Josie Noah

  • Cure Blindness Project,
  • Eye Screening,
  • Independent Living,
  • Love Your Eyes,
  • Pledges,
  • World Sight Day
Member Story

15.09.2026

Sparking Change: Inside OCI’s Women Leadership Program for Optometry

Swetha Saravanan / Harshada Kale / Paula Mukherjee

  • Gender Equity,
  • India,
  • Leadership,
  • OCI,
  • Optometrists,
  • South East Asia,
  • Women
Member Story

10.09.2026

Prevent Blindness Names Reade Fahs, National Vision, as its 2027 Person of Vision Award Recipient

Sarah Hecker

  • North America,
  • Person of Vision Award,
  • Prevent Blindness
Member Story

09.09.2026

KCCO at 25: The relationships that make eye care possible

Robert Geneau

  • Africa Region,
  • Clinical Training,
  • Connection,
  • Eye Health Services,
  • KCCO
IAPB

08.09.2026

Pacific leaders unite on eye health ahead of first Global Summit

Member Story

07.09.2026

Prevent Blindness Declares September as Sports Eye Safety Month to Raise Awareness, Provide Education to Help Avoid Eye Injuries

Sarah Hecker

  • sports eye injuries,
  • sports eye protection,
  • Sports eye safety
Member Story

07.09.2026

From Right to Sight to Systems Thinking: Reflections from India’s VISION 2020 Journey

Bharath Balasubramaniam

  • 2030 In Sight,
  • Artificial Intelligence,
  • Community Eye Care,
  • Digital Eye Health Innovation,
  • eye health,
  • India,
  • Person-Centred Eye Care,
  • Quality Improvement,
  • Sankara Eye Foundation India,
  • SEFI,
  • South East Asia,
  • Systems Thinking,
  • Universal Eye Health,
  • VISION 2020 India
Member Story

07.09.2026

Ohio’s Governor Mike DeWine Named Recipient of the 12th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award, Presented by the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness

Sarah Hecker

Member Story

02.09.2026

KCCO Marks 25 Years of Advancing Eye Health in Tanzania and Across Africa

  • Africa,
  • Collaboration,
  • Innovation,
  • KCCO,
  • Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology,
  • Tanzania
IAPB

24.08.2026

From Elimination to Integration: Eye Health Takes Centre Stage at PAHO’s Seventh Regional Trachoma Meeting

Frank Hida / Dr. Martha Saboyá / Dr. Sandra Talero

  • El Salvador,
  • Latin America,
  • PAHO,
  • Regions,
  • Trachoma Elimination
IAPB

24.08.2026

Paraguay presents preliminary results of the 3rd Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB 2025)

  • RAAB,
  • Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness,
  • technology,
  • The National Eye Health Program of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare

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