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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
3 people wearing green scrubs and masks peer into a microscope

08.08.2023

Using research to address a global imbalance

Stephanie Remke / Marion Bétizeau

  • biomedical research,
  • research capacity strengthening,
  • translation of research results
IAPB
APB & World Sight Day to Shine a Light on the World of Work

08.08.2023

World Sight Day 2023 – Can we do it Western Pacific?

Rachael Bourke

  • ILO,
  • Love Your Eyes at Work,
  • Western Pacific,
  • World Sight Day
Member Story

02.08.2023

Reflections from Women Deliver 2023

Clare Szalay Timbo

Orbis Canada's Clare Szalay Timbo shares about her experience at the largest gender conference

  • Gender Equity,
  • Women Deliver
IAPB
Ophthalmic Assistants telling patients about the use of medicine

02.08.2023

Eye Health indicator in National Strategic Health Plan of Nepal

Yuddha Sapkota

  • eCSC,
  • eye health indicator,
  • monitoring,
  • Universal Eye Health
IAPB

02.08.2023

Implementation of 2030 In Sight in Bhutan

Yuddha Sapkota

  • 2030 In Sight,
  • Bhutan,
  • Eye Health Indicators,
  • IPEC,
  • Universal Eye Health Coverage
Opinion

26.07.2023

Vision for the Future: Progressing towards ending avoidable sight loss and achieving the SDGs by 2030

H.E. Ambassador Walton Webson

  • Sustainable Development Goals,
  • UN resolution on vision
IAPB
Eye Health is critical to achieving the SDGs

26.07.2023

Advancing eye health within the SDG Agenda: transformative actions and collaborative approaches

Holly Aindow / Zirda Kiki

  • Sustainable Development Goals,
  • UN resolution on vision
Member Story
Aravind Eye Care Pledge for World Sight Day

21.07.2023

Aravind’s Pledge for World Sight Day

Thulasiraj Ravilla

Community engagement, comprehensive eye care and enabling compliance together result in growing patient volumes.

  • Aravind Eye Hospitals,
  • Eye Care at Scale,
  • Universal Eye Health
Q&A
Investment in eye health to prevent sight loss - report was authored by the Deloitte Center for Health Economics working with Roche and IAPB teams

21.07.2023

Investment in eye health to prevent sight loss

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

A Q and A exploring the key findings on the first global study of its kind to systematically analyse the evidence base on eye heath expenditure and its association with eye outcomes.

  • Eye health financing,
  • IPEC,
  • Roche,
  • Sustainable Development Goals
Opinion
Delivering an equal right to sight

20.07.2023

Delivering an equal right to sight

Donna O'Brien

Sharing news of new sight testing service for children with learning disabilities

  • Children,
  • glasses,
  • Intellectual disabilities,
  • Learning disabilities,
  • Sight tests,
  • Special Schools
Corneal surgery transplant tissue

18.07.2023

Corneal Surgery, Transplant Tissue, and Eye Banking

Countries without eye bank services are mostly located in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) – where an estimated 90% of the world’s vision impaired reside. (WHO, 2010)

  • corneal blindness,
  • Eye Banking,
  • Transplant Tissue