Vision 2020--the Right to Sight.

The global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness - vision 2020: the right to sight.

The Global Initiative — Vision 2020: The Right to Sight was officially launched on 18 February 1999 with the endorsement of Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization. The mission of Vision 2020 is to eliminate the main causes of blindness in order to give all people of the world, particularly the millions of needlessly blind, the right to sight by the year 2020. In t...

Cataract and "Vision 2020-the right to sight" initiative.

Making a difference with Vision 2020: The Right to Sight? Lessons from two states of North Western Nigeria.

UNLABELLED Settings and Aim: The World Health Organization launched in 1999 an initiative to eliminate the global avoidable blindness and prevent the projected doubling of avoidable visual impairment between 1990 and 2020 (Vision 2020: The Right to Sight). The World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted resolutions WHA 59.25, WHA 56.26 urging member states to adopt the Vision 2020 principles. More than...

Nurse Researchers; an Insight in Science Production in Ophthalmology

Great advancements in ophthalmology and visual sciences have been occurred in recent decades through advantages of globalization. There has been a great evolution in ocular health however, there are still many problems associated with ophthalmic health around the world. World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the International Agency for Preventing Blindness (IAPB) launched an ini...

The challenge of uncorrected refractive error: driving the agenda of the Durban Declaration on refractive error and service development.

The purpose of this article is to highlight the challenge of uncorrected refractive error globally, as well as to discuss recent advocacy successes and innovative programs designed to address the need for broader refractive error service development, particularly in developing countries. The World Health Organization's VISION 2020: The Right to Sight program first posed the challenge to nationa...