Age-related cataract accounts for approximately 50% of blindness in Africa, affecting an estimated 3.5 million people. 1 It is common practice in many African blindness prevention programmes to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WHO announced at the World Health Assembly on May 27 its target of increasing ...

Vision loss can result from a number of different conditions, including refractive errors and cataracts. There are 2.2 billion people around the world who live with near or distance vision impairment, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Active outreach, education and ensuring that spectacles are available at an affordable cost are ...

NIH: Visually impaired and blind population expected to double by 2050 An analysis funded by the National Eye Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, projects the amount of people ...

Corrected vision impairment could prevent billions of dollars in lost productivity annually, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of School of Public Health, the ...

Some of the stakeholders said this at a meeting recently organised in Jos to review the result of the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey conducted in 2023 in the state. The survey, ...

Vision is the most compelling contributor to the quality of our senses, and yet eye care lags behind many other areas in the importance it commands in public health. The World Health Organization (WHO ...