The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is the coordinating membership organisation leading international efforts in blindness prevention activities. IAPB’s mission is to eliminate the main causes of avoidable blindness and visual impairment by bringing together governments and non-governmental agencies to facilitate the planning, development and implementation of sustainable national eye care programmes.
A month after World Sight Day (October 9, 2014) ended with the call “No more Avoidable Blindness”, IAPB and the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) have invited key players in the South East Asia region for a workshop to discuss and plan to reduce avoidable blindness down by 25%, by ... (more)
