Eye health Archives | Page 15 of 17

TV presenter and wheelchair basketball player Ade Adepitan with a group of people

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On Channel 4’s Unreported World TV presenter and wheelchair basketball player Ade Adepitan saw the impact of Sightsavers-supported cataract operations.

October 2015

A group of cataract patients smile broadly after surgery.

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The ‘Seeing is Believing’ (SiB) initiative is a global intervention aimed at tackling avoidable blindness in areas of high need.

Nazondani Mologeni, 76, having her eyes checked by OCO Harold Malinda.

Eye health / Reports /

The programme aimed to increase access to eye health services and to reduce the cataract surgical backlog in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

A woman reads from a chart during a sight test in Mozambique.

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The Advancing Healthy Communities programme aimed to develop a mid-level eye care workforce to increase access to eye health services and to reduce the cataract surgical backlog in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

A mother with her son in Dhaka. He is wearing his new spectacles.

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The project aimed to strengthen eye care facilities, increase awareness of eye care among poor urban communities, and increase access to eye services.

A boy smiles and is embraced by his father after having his dressings removed following eye surgery in Bangladesh.

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The project aimed to train paediatric ophthalmic teams, improve leadership and management, and establish a paediatric outpatient department.

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Bill and Melinda Gates have said that by 2030, diseases including trachoma and river blindness will be consigned to the history books.

January 2015

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Sunetra, who plays Dr Zoe Hanna on medical drama Casualty, has been an ambassador for Sightsavers since 2009.

September 2014

A woman is given sunglasses following cataract surgery in Kenya.

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This five-year intervention was funded by the European Union and co-funded by international NGOs led by Sightsavers.

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This management response is submitted by the Post Health for Peace Initiative and its partners in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and the Gambia, following a its final evaluation undertaken by independent consultants.

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Sightsavers on Channel 4’s Unreported World with Ade Adepitan

Kolkata Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Programme: end-of-term evaluation

Advancing Healthy Communities in East Africa: end-of-term evaluation

Advancing healthy communities in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe: final evaluation

Bangladesh Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project: evaluation

Strengthen national capacities on paediatric ophthalmology in Bangladesh: end-of-term evaluation

Bill and Melinda Gates: trachoma and river blindness will be eliminated by 2030

Sightsavers ambassador Sunetra stars in Strictly Come Dancing

Promoting quality ophthalmology in East Africa project: end-of-term evaluation

Post Health for Peace Initiative: final evaluation

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