Comm Eye Health Vol. 22 No. 71 2009. Published online 01 December, 2009
Corneal blindness
![5492473278_c771ae3f53_o Corneal blindness often affects people at a young age, such as this twelve year old girl who is blind from vitamin A deficiency. She has had a penetrating corneal graft in her left eye; this has unfortunately failed. ETHIOPIA. © Lance Bellers](https://cehjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/5492473278_c771ae3f53_o.jpg)
There are three important elements to addressing corneal blindness: prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. In this issue you will find articles addressing aspects of each of these elements, as well as some of the challenges in their implementation.
Articles in this issue –
- Corneal blindness: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation
- Preventing corneal blindness: working with communities
- Eyelid control during an eye examination
- Managing corneal disease: focus on suppurative keratitis
- Taking a corneal scrape and making a diagnosis
- Corneal grafting: what eye care workers need to know
- Eye banking: an introduction