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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.

14.04.2021

We need to be a force for change today, not tomorrow! A review of the 65th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Louisa Syrett

  • Gender Equity,
  • IAPB Gender Equity Work Group,
  • United Nations
Jo

13.04.2021

Improving Eye Health Awareness in our Community

Neeta Bhise

  • COVID-19,
  • IAPB West Pac newsletter April 2021,
  • sight for all

13.04.2021

Avoiding financial hardship from children’s spectacles in Cambodia

Neath Kong / Anthea Burnett

  • Brien Holden Foundation,
  • Cambodia,
  • IAPB West Pac newsletter April 2021

13.04.2021

Celebrating World Glaucoma Week in Western Pacific

Drew Keys

  • centre for eye research australia,
  • IAPB West Pac newsletter April 2021,
  • World Glaucoma Week,
  • World Glaucoma Week 2021
The refractionist is helping group of elders for visual check in Social protection center in Hanoi where the homeless elders are living.

13.04.2021

Joint National Groups launch CEEHAT

Drew Keys

  • Cambodia,
  • IAPB West Pac newsletter April 2021,
  • Laos,
  • The Fred Hollows Foundation,
  • Vietnam
Daniel doing an eye exam

23.03.2021

World Optometry Day: The Evolution of Optometry

J. Daniel Twelker, OD

  • Optometry,
  • VOSH International,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021

23.03.2021

Myopia a Public Health Challenge that demands Optometry’s leadership

Kovin Naidoo

  • Myopia,
  • Optometry,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021
Eye exam in school

23.03.2021

Challenges and Opportunities for global optometry in the next decade

Priya Morjaria

  • Optometry,
  • The Lancet Global Commission on Global Eye Health,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021
Steven Reed

22.03.2021

Seeing a Brighter Future for Optometry

Steven T. Reed

  • COVID-19,
  • Optometry,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021
exam

22.03.2021

Serving the visual needs of persons with intellectual disabilities

Sandra Block

  • Disability,
  • Optometry,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021

22.03.2021

Optometry delivering IPEC in Uganda

Naomi Nsubuga

  • Optometry,
  • Uganda,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021
A child

22.03.2021

Hyperopia, a Catalyst to School Dropouts – Can we do Better?

George Moyo

  • Optometry,
  • World Optometry Day,
  • World Optometry Day 2021