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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.
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
IAPB
2030 IN SIGHT LIVE Singapore - Register Now

10.01.2023

2030 IN SIGHT LIVE – Join us in Singapore to take action, be inspired and connect with others

Peter Holland

  • 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE,
  • 2030 In Sight Strategy,
  • Singapore Eye Research Institute