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Founded in 1975 by Sir John Wilson.
125 members
International & local NGOs Professional Bodies Universities Corporate companies
Council of Members Board of Trustees
IAPB has seven regionsand a global office in London
N. America &The Caribbean
Latin America
Africa
Europe
EasternMed.
S. E. Asia
WestPacific
Mission:
To achieve universal access to eye health, by:
1) adding value to and maximising the impact of the individual and collective work of our Members, including those who strive for the inclusion and rehabilitation of those with vision loss
2) promoting knowledge and awareness of comprehensive eye health system development, particularly at country level.
Key IAPB activities:
1) Advocacy
2) Promotes knowledge and good practice.
3) Provides services to its’ Members.
4) Co-ordinates Seeing is Believing grant programme
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20
40
60
80
With Vision 2020
Without Vision 2020
2000 2010 2020
Latest data 39m
Predicted global numberof blind people
millions
Numbers of Blind persons against original VISION 2020 predictions.
Courtesy Allen Foster
GBD Blindness Estimates Age-standardized and Total Number
1990 1995 2000 2005 20100.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.4%
0.5%
0.6%
0.7%
0.8%
0.9%
1.0%
0
5,000,000
10,000,000
15,000,000
20,000,000
25,000,000
30,000,000
35,000,000
40,000,000
Age-standardized Prevalence
EstimatedNumber blind
Courtesy Rupert Bourne
Four World Health Assembly Resolutions and Two Action Plans 2009 and 2013
WHA 62.12009
Universal Access to Eye Health:
A Global Action Plan,
2014 – 2019
WHA 66.11 2013
Advocacy
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_11-en.pdf
Implementation at country level
What does Universal Eye Health Mean?
1) Comprehensive eye care services - promotion, prevention, rehabilitation and care, - covering the range of causes of vision impairment, - providing services to those at risk of, and with, visual impairment
2) Eye health integrated into health systems. - across the six areas of a health system
3) Reaching everyone - the poor, marginalized, people in rural areas, vision impaired, minorities - tackling barriers which these groups face to ensure use of services
4) Point of care payment should not prevent access - it must be free for the poorest
The need for effective national bodies to press forUniversal Eye Health Coverage in each country.
1) Presently 14 VISION 2020 national bodies, - VISION 2020 Australia, India and UK are the strongest
2) 118 National Prevention of Blindness Committees, - effectiveness very variable – some very strong e.g. Pakistan
The ideal national body
National implementation
of AP
EffectiveAdvocatesRepresentational
Knowledgeable
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