Iceh News
Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness launches new programme for trainers
Image: © Rolex / Joan Bardeletti. The Peek visual acuity test, part of the RAAB7 software Efforts to improve eye health globally requires an evidence base on the prevalence and type of vision impairment in a particular area. This data is essential in planning services...
International Society of Ocular Oncology (ISOO) Africa Meeting this August
The first International Society of Ocular Oncology (ISOO) Africa meeting will be held live in Mombasa, Kenya, from August 21-23, 2023. The ISOO mission is to promote the advancement of ocular oncology by coordination with general ophthalmology, general oncology,...
ICEH Professor and Peek Vision Co-Founder awarded an OBE
Prof Andrew Bastawrous with the Peek visual acuity test © Rolex Joan Bardeletti ICEH Professor Andrew Bastawrous, co-founder of award-winning eye health social enterprise Peek Vision, has been awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for ‘services to eye health...
Eye Health Population Surveys Could Potentially Include Socioeconomic Position
The Peek visual acuity test used in RAAB7 © Rolex Joan Bardeletti In order to achieve universal health coverage and ensure no one is left behind, different indicators need to be monitored when recording who is receiving...
World Glaucoma Week: Glaucoma Research in Nigeria
by Dr Farouk Garba, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world. Contrary to some conditions like cataract where patients get discharged after a successful surgery and sometimes never seen...
Study reveals best ways to improve access to cataract services for underserved groups
Cataract surgeries in Nepal. Photograph: Shyam Cataract is the leading cause of blindness globally, and a major cause of vision impairment, affecting an estimated 94 million people in 2020. The scale of this challenge is not spread equally however, with some places...
Vision test that could help 500m people developed by ICEH and Peek Vision
Around 500 million people worldwide suffer from untreated near-vision impairment, which can impair people’s ability to live and work. ICEH’s close partner Peek Vision, which works to create tools to improve eye care, has now completed validation of a smartphone-based...
Focus on: Trachoma
Two hundred million people still live in regions endemic for trachoma, a painful and potentially blinding eye disease. This is despite concerted international efforts to tackle the condition. Trachoma is caused by repeated infections with the bacteria C. Trachomatis....
Celebrating World Diabetes Day
Health professionals from all over the world came together to mark World Diabetes Day on 14 November 2022 through an online workshop celebrating progress in development of diabetic retinopathy (DR) services in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Diabetic...