eye health
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World Sight Day
26th September 2022
This campaign will highlight the importance of people prioritising their own eye health and call on leaders to ensure that eye care is accessible, inclusive and affordable to everyone, everywhere.
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UN 66th CSW Side Event: How can eye health contribute to achieving gender equity and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change?
04th March 2022
On 16 March, 08:00am US EST, the United Nations (UN) Friends of Vision will host a virtual expert panel discussion in the margins of the 66th Commission for the Status of Women (CSW). The event will focus on the intersection between vision, gender and climate change and call for the urgent need to dismantle structural barriers that contribute to women and girls being disproportionately vulnerable to vision and climate change.
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World Sight Day
04th October 2021
World Sight Day is an important day in the eye health calendar. It is an annual awareness day that is observed on the second Thursday of October every year. World Sight Day aims to focus global attention on blindness, vision impairment and eye care.
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Caring for eye health within the NCD and UHC responses
04th August 2020
A new policy brief by the NCD Alliance and The Fred Hollows Foundation explores the impact of preventable eye health conditions to society and health systems.
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New partnership to promote better eye health globally
03rd September 2019
NCD Alliance partners with The Fred Hollows Foundation to further integrate eye health into the global agenda.