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Getting prevention of blindness onto the healthcare agenda of the WHO and its member states ensured that those countries included allocations for eye care in their budgets. World Sight Day also helps to raise awareness of blindness and visual impairment. [8] Between 1990 and 2020, the age-standardised global prevalence of blindness fell by 28.5%.
Of those who are blind 90% live in the developing world. [78] Worldwide for each blind person, an average of 3.4 people have low vision, with country and regional variation ranging from 2.4 to 5.5. [79] By age: Visual impairment is unequally distributed across age groups. More than 82% of all people who are blind are 50 years of age and older ...
World Sight Day, observed annually on the second Thursday of October, is a global event meant to draw attention to blindness and vision impairment. It was originally initiated by the SightFirstCampaign of Lions Club International Foundation in 2000.
Blindness in the United States (5 C, 8 P) This page was last edited on 28 October 2023, at 15:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Vitamin A deficiency is the world's leading cause of preventable childhood blindness, [1] and is critical to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 to reduce child mortality. About 250,000 to 500,000 malnourished children in the developing world go blind each year from a deficiency of vitamin A, around half of whom die within a year of ...
The stated goal of the World Blind Union is a global community where people who are blind or partially sighted are empowered to participate on an equal basis in any aspect of life they choose. The purpose of the World Blind Union is a worldwide movement of blind and partially sighted people acting on their own behalf to make the world a better ...
South Sudan’s Blind Premier League is backed by Light for the World, a non-governmental organization that works for disability rights and inclusion in South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya ...
Corneal opacity is the 4th main cause of blindness globally (5.1%). [1] Using the World Health Organization's (WHO; Geneva, Switzerland) blindness definition,1 45 million people worldwide are bilaterally blind, of which 6 to 8 million are blind due to corneal disease. In some African areas, nearly 90% of the total blindness is due to corneal ...