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To provide training and treatment for trachoma to aid indigenous groups living in remote areas of the Brazilian Amazon
The projectBrazilian indigenous groups...
To reduce cataract blindness through the provision of surgical and primary eye care services in Karnali province, Nepal
The project...
In 2019, it was estimated that 253 million people worldwide suffered from visual impairment, with 217 million described as having low vision and 36 million described as being blind.
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Expanding the Community Eye Centres program in Africa: adding a new funding model to bring it to scale.
The projectTanzania has almost no funds to support eye care services and as a...
To reduce the burden of avoidable blindness in Mopti through the provision of eye care and optometric training
The projectThe...
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To provide cataract surgeries, diabetic retinopathy screening and physician training in western Odisha state
The projectThe western Odisha state is an...
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To improve the uptake of low vision services in school-going children with ocular albinism in North Central region, Nigeria
Project...Lyndon Jones is a Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He graduated in Optometry from the...
The XOVA grant helped the Kabgayi Eye Unit, which was built and financed by CBM Italia Onlus, to strengthen its services in both: terms of capacity building of the staff and in improvements to the equipment of the eye unit. During 2017,...
The STEPwise survey conducted in Kenya in 2015 indicated that around 2–3% of the adult population (about 420,000 people) had blood sugar markers consistent with diabetes mellitus, and that nearly a quarter of...