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VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
A Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness
Louis Pizzarello, MD;
Adenike Abiose, FRCOphth;
Timothy Ffytche, FRCOphth;
Rainaldo Duerksen, MD;
R. Thulasiraj, MBA;
Hugh Taylor, MD;
Hannah Faal, FRCOphth;
Gullapali Rao, MD;
Ivo Kocur, MD;
Serge Resnikoff, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2004;122:615-620.
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INTRODUCTION
An estimated 45 million people around the world are blind.1 Most of them have lost their sight to diseases that are treatable or preventable. Eighty percent of them live in the lesser-developed world in countries where chronic economic deprivation is exacerbated by the added challenge of failing vision. Without intervention, the number of individuals with blindness might reach 76 million by 2020 because of a number of factors, primarily the rapid aging of populations in most countries.2 Since eye disease is seen largely in older people, the projected doubling of the world's population older than 50 years to 2 billion by 2020 has profound effects on the number of those with blindness and low vision.
In response to this global . . . [Full Text of this Article]
THE IAPB
NATIONAL PROGRAMS AND PLANS OF ACTION
REGIONAL REPORTS
Africa Eastern Mediterranean Europe North America South America
Southeast Asia
Western Pacific
COST EFFECTIVENESS OF VISION 2020
GLOBAL COMMITMENT
RESOLUTION OF THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
From the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, London, England (Drs Pizzarello, Abiose, Ffytche, Duerksen, Taylor, Faal, and Rao and Mr Thulasiraj); the Centre for Eye Research, Columbia University, New York, NY (Dr Pizzarello); University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (Dr Taylor); and the World Health Organization, Program for Prevention of Blindness and Deafness, Geneva, Switzerland (Drs Kocur and Resnikoff).
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