The first launch of the SEA region. The WHO launched the Word Report on Vision (WRV) at a global level on 9 October 2019 on the eve of World Sight Day 2019.
We started the series off with the first webinar featuring IAPB’s CEO in conversation with two key experts from WHO, Dr Alarcos Cieza, and Dr Silvio Mariotti.
IAPB and the Canadian Ophthalmology Society (COS) held the Canadian launch of the World Report on Vision as part of the Canadian Ophthalmology Society 2020 Annual Meeting on June 26.
To mark World Sight Day Her Majesty The Queen and Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex held a call with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and three eye health professionals from around the world.
After much thought and discussion, the IAPB board, in consultation with the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), cancelled next year’s Global Assembly 2021.
The Friends of Vision, a group of United Nations’ Ambassadors, announced that they will pursue the first-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on eye health.
Another edition of the IAPB-Bayer World Sight Day photo competition has come to a spectacular end. We received over 1900 photo submissions (with nearly 500 photos in the COVID-19 category) this year – a record.
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