Comm Eye Health Vol. 22 No. 69 2009. Published online 01 March, 2009
8th General assembly of IAPB
The theme of the 8th General Assembly of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) was ‘Excellence and equity in eye care’ – superlative sound bites perhaps, but when those words are considered in the context of VISION 2020, they take on a meaning that should define all our efforts to combat avoidable blindness.
Articles in this issue –
- Contributing to achieve the goal of VISION 2020
- Excellence and equity in eye care
- Blindness and cataract in children in developing countries
- Converting from ECCE to SICS
- Blindness and visual impairment due to retinal diseases
- Perspectives on primary eye care
- Human resources for eye care: changing the way we think
- A new clamp for bilamellar tarsal rotation for trachomatous trichiasis
- Vision loss and visual hallucinations: the Charles Bonnet syndrome
- Administering a subconjunctival injection