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Vision Atlas
Valued Supplier Scheme
World Sight Day
Featured blog

12.03.2024

BIENVENIDO EL CONSEJO OPTOMETRÍA MÉXICO A LA IAPB
Featured blog

15.05.2024

SPECS 2030 Initiative: Collaborating to Achieve the Global Refractive Error Target
Featured blog

27.05.2024

Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting Sparks Renewed Momentum for Eye Health
Featured blog

19.04.2024

April Brown launches for 2024
Featured blog

16.04.2024

Why Communications & Campaigns Staff Should Attend 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE, Mexico
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09.01.2023

Reflections of an Eye Health Hero: Cherish Eyesight and Vision

Araba Otoo

  • Eye Health Hero
Member Story
Joining forces in our fight against preventable blindness

09.01.2023

Joining Forces in our fight against preventable blindness

Fatemah Al Shamlan

  • Dhahran Eye Specialist Hospital,
  • Ophthalmology,
  • WAEH,
  • WHO
Member Story
Akhand

09.01.2023

A Soul Searching Mission for Reducing Poverty and Gender Discrimination

Anirban Banerjee

  • Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital,
  • gender equality,
  • Gender Equity,
  • India
IAPB
Advocacy to Action 2022 – Association of Southeast Asian Nations – Universal Health Coverage: Advocacy approaches for eye health

06.01.2023

Advocacy to Action 2022 – Association of Southeast Asian Nations – Universal Health Coverage: Advocacy approaches for eye health

Jissa James / Shreyashi Paik

  • Advocacy to Action,
  • Universal Health Coverage
IAPB
Advocacy to Action: Reflections on Universal Health Coverage: advocacy approaches for eye health 

06.01.2023

Advocacy to Action: Reflections on Universal Health Coverage: advocacy approaches for eye health 

Jissa James / Shreyashi Paik

  • 2030 In Sight,
  • Advocacy to Action,
  • Universal Health Coverage
Member Story
African leaders unite to address the Continent’s corneal tissue need

14.12.2022

African leaders unite to address the Continent’s corneal tissue need

Heather Machin

  • Cornea,
  • Cornea Bank,
  • Cornea Donation,
  • corneal blindness,
  • Corneal Transplant,
  • DGFG,
  • eye bank,
  • Eye Donation,
  • GAEBA,
  • SATiBA,
  • Tissue,
  • Tissue Donation,
  • WUTBA
Member Story
Major IVI campaigns in Karnataka & Chennai

14.12.2022

India Vision Institute’s campaigns in Karnataka and Chennai

Shekhar Nambiar

  • India
IAPB

14.12.2022

World Sight Day celebrations in South-East Asia

Yuddha Sapkota

  • World Sight Day
IAPB

14.12.2022

Sri Lanka launches 2030 In Sight -Integrated People Centred Eye Care in their National eye Health Policy and Plan

Yuddha Sapkota

  • Sri Lanka,
  • The Integrated People-centred Eye Care
IAPB
Image description: A photograph is taken through the window of a mud house. It frames a vision screening in progress where an eye care professional points at a snell chart. 

12.12.2022

Universal Health Coverage Day 2022 – Building a World with No Preventable Sight Loss

Junu Shrestha

  • Sustainable Development Goals,
  • Universal Health Coverage,
  • Universal Health Coverage Day
Member Story
Building on the strengths of local, government health workers

12.12.2022

Building on the strengths of local, government health workers

Colin Zak

  • Focus on Gender Equity,
  • India,
  • Operation Eyesight,
  • Universal Health Coverage Day
IAPB
Making glasses/Marisa Martins Armada

08.12.2022

Integration of Primary Eye Care into Primary Health Care to strengthen eye health in the ECSA region

Simon Day

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