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Filter Categories Filter - All Jobs Latest News Membership Blog Webinar: Cost-effective interventions in eye care Innovations to handle the COVID-19 epidemic Read More Webinar: Digital Technologies and COVID-19 Prof Tien Yin Wong, SERI and Jude Stern IAPB discuss. Read More Dr Para is no more Eye care leaders share their messages. Read More Launch of a new learning and innovation fund This is for five NTD's. Read More Webinar: Eye Health and COVID-19 WHO top-brass discusses COVID-19 with IAPB CEO. Read More GA2020 Postponed IAPB’s Global Assembly 2020 to October 2021. Read More Global Eye Health Sector Support for the World Health ... COVID-19 requires global cooperation Read More Vacancy: Project Officer (Seeing is Believing) IAPB seeks an energetic and outcome orientated Project Officer Read More COVID-19 — CEO Update IAPB's response to the COVID19 outbreak Read More Marking World Glaucoma Week 2020 and more in March A round-up of International Days... Read More Message from Prevent Blindness on COVID-19 Prevent Blindness's message... Read More Corneal donation in times of the COVID 19 pandemic The German Society for Tissue Transplantation on COVID-19... Read More Coming together as a sector Rachael Bourke on COVID-19... Read More Optometry in Malaysia during COVID-19 An account from Malaysia... Read More How Optometrists Help in the Battle Against Myopia An optometrist from Philippines... Read More Optometrists as agents of change Tricia Keys on her journey from optometrist to more... Read More UNDRR Survey on COVID-19 They are collecting experience of persons with disabilities. Read More WHO survey on training Survey is related to COVID-19 outbreak Read More Addressing Childhood Blindness in South Sulawesi A project in Indonesia... Read More A school eye health programme in Viet Nam The Viet Nam Child Eye Care project successes Read More Public Health Optometry The need to train a future Workforce in the Pacific Islands... Read More Setting up of the Vision Catalyst Fund It is being set up to support the creation and development of national scale, government-owned eye health services. Read More Therapeutic Optometry in PNG – is it time? John Farmer makes the case for it... Read More Optometry beyond the 2020 call In times of a global crisis, Luigi Bilotto reflects on how optometrists are responding and evolution of the profess... Read More Early Rehabilitation of the Blind child as a continuum... Dr Anne Ebri, shares an inspiring optometry driven initiative to give children with low vision access to their righ... Read More Primary care role of optometrists Dr Sandra Block highlights the core primary care role of optometrists… Read More Optometry outside the box: global development in Vietn... Drs Robert & Kimberly Molter, reflect on the value of contributing to developing optometry beyond your own sett... Read More Advocacy: Opening the Eyes of the World Dr Don Lyon demonstrates the impact of strategic, well planned advocacy in eye health… Read More “But where are the ophthalmologists (doctors)?” Dr Suit May Ho, celebrates the listing of optometry as a recognised profession in Vietnam, 10 years in the making…... Read More Glaucoma in Rural India Nikhil Choudhari and Rohit Khanna on glaucoma in rural India… Read More Glaucoma in Wales Wai Siene Ng on glaucoma in Wales… Read More Developing an affordable glaucoma drainage device in I... Professor William Morgan on use of a glaucoma drainage device Indonesia… Read More Glaucoma Q&A with Dr Kham Od Nouansavanh Q&A with Dr Kham Od Nouansavanh, the only glaucoma specialist practicing in Laos. Read More Live Report: Catalyzing glaucoma treatment and trainin... Dr. Scott Lawrence reports from an active surgical outreach to alleviate blindness in Southern Ethiopia. Read More Advancing Glaucoma Care in Southern Haiti Mark S. Rakoczy on advancing glaucoma care in Southern Haiti… Read More A Potential Glaucoma patients wish… Dr Mohd Aziz Husni writes the fears of a person with a family history of glaucoma… Read More Glaucoma in Nepal Dakki Sherpa on glaucoma in Nepal… Read More Why Family History Matters Mona Kaleem on why family history matters with glaucoma… Read More Glaucoma is Coming Silently Sangchul Yoon on glaucoma in South Korea, risk factors and more… Read More Glaucoma Challenges in Africa Amel Meddeb-Ouertani on why we need to come together to tackle glaucoma especially in Africa… Read More Alleviating Childhood Blindness from Congenital Glauco... The advances KKESH are making to tackle childhood blindness from congenital glaucoma... Read More Glaucoma related blindness in Hungary Aron Szabo on glaucoma related blindness in Hungary… Read More Fighting glaucoma with lessons from across the pond Lauren Entwistle on sustainable solutions to handle the growing number of glaucoma patients at health facilities in... Read More Focusing the spotlight on glaucoma in the Caribbean Desiree Murray on formation of the Association of Caribbean Glaucoma Surgeons … Read More Should we be doing more about Glaucoma? Jess Blijkers raises the question... Read More Glaucoma community collaborative care programme Bernardo Soares on glaucoma collaborative care programmes in Australia… Read More Azah and the big grey, tearing and blinking eye Dr Marvice Okwen on glaucoma in Cameroon and what needs to be done… Read More Is the light shining brighter for glaucoma patients? Dr João Barbosa Breda on hope for the future of glaucoma patients… Read More Rethinking glaucoma care Dr. Sidi Mohamed Ezzouhairi on why we need to rethink glaucoma care… Read More Education – as a blindness prevention tool for glaucom... Ana María Vasquez on how education can be deployed as a tool for glaucoma prevention… Read More The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) for the global eye care. We have over 150 members worldwide–NGOs, corporate organisations, professional bodies and research and eye care institutions. We were founded in 1975 to lead international efforts in blindness prevention activities. We work towards a world where no one is needlessly visually impaired, in which everyone has access to the best possible standard of eye health, and eye care is a core part of Universal Health Coverage. IN THE NEWS IAPB marks World Glaucoma Week with stories and blog posts from a selection of IAPB members and Glaucoma professionals. This year, World Glaucoma Week is the second week of March. Do read all our Glaucoma stories in one place. DISCOVER MORE IAPB Regions Click on a region to discover more Choose a region IAPB Africa Access news, information & reports from IAPB Africa Read More IAPB Latin America Access news, information & reports from IAPB Latin America Read More IAPB Europe A...