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Deepen your learning and engagement around key topics for global eye health and the 2030 In Sight Strategy on the IAPB Knowledge Hub.

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IAPB School Eye Health Guidelines

Empowering schools to implement sustainable and effective eye health programs for children, especially in resource-limited settings.

Diabetic eye disease

Diabetic eye disease often begins without symptoms, but because it it often left unmanaged, it has become a leading cause of vision loss and blindness.

Refractive error

Globally, millions of people are blind or have low vision due to lack of access to spectacles, resulting in reduced quality of life.

Cataract

Cataract remains the leading cause of blindness and a major cause of visual loss across the globe.

Systems Change

The scope, complexity, and scale of the eye health systems we seek to transform requires collective intelligence and coordinated collective action. Learn more about systems change here.

IAPB eye health technology guide

This guide aims to help you better understand and critically analyse eye care technology for use at the community and primary levels of eye care.

Integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC)

Integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC) has the potential to address many challenges to delivering effective eye care services.

Three things you need to know about eye health awareness

A snapshot of key issues, messages, and resources to help you drive awareness in eye health.

Eye care in health systems: Guide for action video

16.11.2022

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This video summarises the Eye care in health systems: Guide for action and its four accompanying tools, developed to support health planners and Member States in the planning and implementation of integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC).

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Welcome to the Knowledge Hub

Are you working in eye health policy or practice at any level? The IAPB Knowledge Hub contains a wealth of content to support you to help accelerate action on global eye health.

The Knowledge Hub brings together evidence, information, key opinions, resources, guides, tools and the sharing of member experiences on the most important topic areas in global eye health.

The Knowledge Hub works together with the Vision Atlas, which contains a rich mix of the latest eye health data, narrative and presentation tools.

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The Knowledge Hub draws on the wealth of expertise and knowledge of the IAPB network. It will be expanded and further improved over time, and we ask for your help in this.

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2030 In Sight: Using knowledge to catalyse action

We have created the Knowledge Hub around the three pillars of the 2030 In Sight strategy: Elevate, Integrate, and Activate.

The Knowledge Hub enables easy access to expertise and experience across the network to help:

  • elevate eye health into the Sustainable Development Goals
  • integrate eye health into broader health systems, and
  • activate markets necessary for eye health and empower individuals to make eye health a priority.

Please explore the following sections to learn more about key topics forming part of each pillar, or you can view all topics by selecting the following button.

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Elevate

The Elevate pillar of the 2030 In Sight strategy calls us to embed vision as a fundamental, economic, social and development issue. How can we can do this?

  • Unlock political will and financing.
  • Set new targets for eye health and hold government to account for reaching them.
  • Leverage school and education settings.
  • Call on employers to support eye health in workplaces.
  • Advocate and demonstrate good practice across the full Sustainable Development framework.

Child eye health and education

To address the growing need for child eye health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, we need to leverage school and education settings.

Gender Equity

The global eye health sector has a unique opportunity to unite and speak with one voice, to strengthen gender equity in our organisations and programmes collectively.

Work and Economic Growth

People with vision impairment are less likely to gain employment and more likely to have low paid work.

Climate Action

Contains detailed guidance to eye care sector on ways to reduce environmental impact and support climate resilience.

Sustainable Development Goals

Eye health makes a key contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals as a highly cost-effective way to unlock human potential.

Eye health financing

There remains a significant funding gap to support access to eye health services, but there is also a high return on investment due to lost productivity.

Integrate

Everyone should have access to good quality eye health services. But this will only happen if there is greater integration of eye health in wider health care systems. How can we can achieve this?

  • Push for inclusion in Universal Health Coverage.
  • Deliver integrated people-centred eye care.
  • Train and develop a diverse and resilient workforce.
  • Embrace technological solutions.

Integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC)

Integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC) has the potential to address many challenges to delivering effective eye care services.

Workforce

There are not enough people on the ground with a broad enough range of skills and qualifications to match the scale or the range of issues that now face eye health.

Universal Health Coverage

Eye care is an integral part of Universal Health Coverage, which is central to delivering SDG3 (Good Health and Wellbeing).

Technology for access

Technological solutions are one of the tools we need to use to ensure that the hardest to reach have access to the eye health services they need.

Activate

Eye health is a universal issue and we must activate universal demand by driving patient, consumer and market change. How can we can do this?

  • Campaign on a new level.
  • Tackle negative stereotyping.
  • Build public-private partnerships.
  • Create the right regulatory environment.

Working with the private sector

Eye health cannot be addressed nor services scaled up without a major contribution from the private sector.

Awareness & behaviour change

We need individuals and communities around the world to make their vision a priority.

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Strengthening Eye Health in Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa: A Path Forward

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IAPB
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  • Blog

2024 in Africa: Connecting and impacting

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Journey of the Systems Change

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Journey of the systems change through Inclusive Eye Health approaches in Pakistan

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11.12.2024

  • Blog

Appreciating the Value of the Patient Voice to Improve Eye Health

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Taiwan Prevent Blindness Foundation

10.12.2024

  • Blog

Taiwan Prevent Blindness Foundation’s Efforts in Responding to World Sight Day

Evelyn Huang

CBM announces new scholarships for eye doctors

29.11.2024

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CBM announces new scholarships for eye doctors

Elsbeth Tolu

IAPB
Measuring progress towards 2030 In Sight

26.11.2024

  • Blog

Measuring progress towards 2030 In Sight – A Strategy Monitoring Framework

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Better Education in Sight

18.11.2024

  • Blog

Better Education in Sight

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IAPB
Panelists of the Roadmap Dissemination event on World Sight Day 2024.

18.11.2024

  • Blog

VISION HEALTH ROAD MAP INDONESIA

Dr Yeni Lestari

IAPB

18.11.2024

  • Blog

Bhutan generated baseline data on DR

Indra Sharma / Yuddha Sapkota

12.11.2024

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World Diabetes Day

Drew Keys

07.11.2024

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Examining Trends in Global Blindness and MSVI since 1990

Pooja Doshi, DrPH(c), MPH, COA

Latest Knowledge resources

IAPB School Eye Health Guidelines 2024 cover

18.06.2024

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School Eye Health Guidelines

The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released these guidelines to help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world.

Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities

01.04.2024

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Report on the Assessment of National Eye Health Strategies

Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities

Diabetic Retinopathy: A Call for Global Action

27.03.2024

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Diabetic Retinopathy: A Call for Global Action

A policy brief developed by IDF and The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) that advocates for a joint approach to prevent and manage vision loss in people living with diabetes by integrating diabetic retinopathy (DR) care into diabetes policies and national health plans.

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01.02.2024

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Vision and eye screening implementation handbook

The WHO Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH) offers a step-by-step guidance for conducting vision and eye screenings in community and primary care settings.

Glasses for All: Improving Supply to the Poorest

30.01.2024

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Glasses for All: Improving Supply to the Poorest

This key report sheds light on the often-overlooked supply-side barriers that prevent many in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) from obtaining affordable, quality glasses.

2022-2023 L’OCCITANE Philanthropy Report

26.10.2023

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2022-2023 L’OCCITANE Philanthropy Report

L’OCCITANE en Provence has always put people at the heart of its operation. For more than 20 years, it has been committed to Caring for Sight, supporting projects around the world that help prevent blindness.

The 2023 Annual Report of CBM's eye care work across its programmes.

26.10.2023

  • Resources

A Year In Review- CBM’s Inclusive Eye Health Initiative

The 2023 Annual Report of CBM's eye care work across its programmes. Inclusive, comprehensive and integrated- CBM's Eye Health Initiative reports on it latest work in eye health.

Guidance on the analysis and use of routine health information systems: eye and ear care module

05.10.2023

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Guidance on the analysis and use of routine health information systems: eye and ear care module

This guidance aims to facilitate the monitoring of both eye and ear care services through presenting a set of core facility indicators along with considerations for analysis and use of routine health information

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) have collaborated to produce a report Eye Health and the World of Work

28.09.2023

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Eye health and the world of work – ILO Report

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) have collaborated to produce a report on Eye Health and the World of Work

Advocacy for Eye Health: A Beginner’s Guide

27.09.2023

  • Resources

Advocacy for Eye Health: A Beginner’s Guide
Investment in eye health to prevent sight loss

30.08.2023

  • Resources

Investment in eye health to prevent sight loss

This report was authored by the Deloitte Center for Health Economics working with Roche and IAPB

Retinopathy of prematurity in India

22.05.2023

  • Resources

Retinopathy of prematurity in India – what can we learn from the polio legacy?

ROP related blindness can be prevented by improving comprehensive preterm care and screening at appropriate time.

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