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Opinion

13.03.2023

One Year Later: Delivering Eye Health Services for Displaced Ukrainians

Tatiana Ghidirimschi / Brooke Blanchard

The LOW VISION Center reflects on its emergency plan to address the continuity and expansion of eye care in a context unprecedented in Europe since World War II.

  • Conflict,
  • Cross-sector,
  • Eastern Europe,
  • Healthcare,
  • Humanitarian Response,
  • Moldova,
  • Ophthalmology,
  • Refugees,
  • Ukraine
Member Story
Blue Background on left side white text reads Climate Change and eye health - a qa R Venkatesh Chief Medical Officer Aravind Eye Hospital with photo of Venkatesh on right

02.03.2023

Climate change and eye health

Dr. R. Venkatesh

  • Climate Action,
  • Reducing carbon foot print,
  • Sustainable eye health
Member Story
Image blue background with photo of Marcela Deffis y Ramos on right. Text on left says Delivering high quality visual care: Fundacion Luz, Marcela Deffis y Ramos, Chief Executive Officer, Fundacion Luz,

25.02.2023

Delivering high quality visual care: Fundación +Luz

Marcela Deffis y Ramos,

  • Baja California,
  • Fundación +Luz,
  • Mexico
IAPB
Screenshot of several people on Zoom

25.02.2023

Advocacy to Action Regional Update Session: Western Pacific

Junu Shreshta

  • Advocacy to Action,
  • Integrated people-centred eye care,
  • WHO’s Eye Care Situation Assessment Tool
IAPB
Girl with red headscarf looks out of a window

24.02.2023

Humanitarian Interest Group: Calling All Members

Brooke Blanchard

  • Humanitarian Response Working Group,
  • Work Group
IAPB
SDG Wheel

24.02.2023

United Nations Voluntary National Reviews of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Holly Aindow

  • Sustainable Development Goals,
  • UN resolution on vision,
  • Voluntary National Reviews,
  • World Health Assembly
Member Story
Group photo

20.02.2023

National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Treatment Guidelines for Nigeria

Oteri Okolo / Covadonga Bascaran

  • Diabetic Retinopathy,
  • Eye Health Policy,
  • National Clinical Guidelines,
  • National Eye Health Programme,
  • Nigeria
Member Story

15.02.2023

School-based Eye Health in Zambia

Yong Ai Chee / Anne Buglass / Godfrey Mwelwa / Ronnie Graham / Hannah Faal / Ving Fai Chan

  • Child Eye Health,
  • Zambia
Opinion
Blue background. Centred text in white says: Climate Change the next big risk to eye health. Below it Princess Ifeoma Ike, Optometrist/CEO, Princess Vision Eye Clinic Limited Abuja Nigeria in white, on the extreme right is a photo of Princess.

14.02.2023

Climate Change: The next big risk to eye health

Princess Ifeoma Ike

  • Climate Change,
  • eye health,
  • Eye Health Hero
Member Story
A doctor carrying out a TAC test in a boy child wearing a red tshirt and face mask

03.02.2023

Special Needs Vision Clinic – Leave No One Behind

Jaikumar Deenadayalan / Rebecca Sumalini Chakram / Sabitra Kundu / Jahnavi Kanchustambam / Krishnapriya Kodavati / Beula Christy / SG Prem Kumar / Shrikant Ayyangar

Authors from Mission for Vision and LV Prasad Eye Institute join forces to highlight an important topic of enabling eye health for children with special needs.

  • Children with special needs,
  • LV Prasad Eye Institute,
  • Mission For Vision,
  • Special Needs Vision Clinic,
  • Universal Eye Health,
  • Vision Rehabilitation
Member Story
Blue background with text on top, Covid-19, Measles and Vision, at bottom Elizabeth Kurian, CEO Mission for Vision with her photo on the right

03.02.2023

Covid-19, Measles and Vision

Elizabeth Kurian

  • blindness,
  • COVID,
  • Measles,
  • Universal Health Coverage,
  • WHO