IAPB Global Ambassador, Her Royal
Highness The Countess of Wessex visited Dhaka from 23rd
- 25th March to experience successful projects operated
by Sightsavers International, whose work.....
TWorld Sight Day (WSD) is an international
day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday
of October to focus attention on the global issue of
avoidable blindness and visual impairment....
Low Vision and refractive error
will be the theme of this year's World Sight Day, which
falls on Thursday 12th October. The VISION 2020 aims,
in relation to low vision and refractive error, are
the elimination...
The VISION 2020 government tool
kit is now available from the WHO website in French,
Spanish and English, and an Arabic version is also expected
soon. The tool kit sets out the essential elements of
a national VISION 2020 plan..
There are 37 million blind people
and over 124 million with low vision, comprising a total
of over 161 million people with visual impairment in
our world today. VISION 2020: The Right to Sight ...
The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals and 100 million people depend on a WHO resolution making the prevention of blindness a global priority, reports former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Sir John Major.
