The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) has announced details of their 2012 General Assembly, the premier global event for discussion of public health topics related to blindness and visual impairment.
It will highlight progress in VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, the joint initiative between IAPB and WHO for the elimination of avoidable blindness.
With the theme Eye Health – Everyone’s Business, the 9th General Assembly (9GA) will attract an international audience of health professionals including ophthalmologists, optometrists, policy-makers, industry and NGOs.
The Assembly takes place on 17-20 September 2012, Hyderabad, India. IAPB’s Organizing Partner for the 9GA is the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI).
Official communication from IAPB about 9GA formally began today with the launch of the conference’s website at www.9ga.iapb.org
GA is positioned to attract a broad audience from the health and development sectors, leveraging VISION 2020 and IAPB as success stories in multi-sector public-private partnerships for public health.
The 9GA will feature keynote lectures and speakers who will talk on strengthening health systems, thereby offering opportunities to highlight the linkages between VISION 2020’s objectives and health care delivery.
The majority of blindness is preventable or treatable. This Nepali teenager is blind from bilateral cataracts and eye surgery restored her sight.
Topics on eye health that will be explored include:•The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and Blindness Prevention
•Social Entrepreneurship and Eye Care: the Future
•Health Systems Strengthening
•Neglected Tropical Diseases/Non-Communicable Diseases: an Eye Care Perspective
•Global Burden of Disease
•Gender and Blindness
•Eye Care Management Issues
•Human Resource Development
•Financial Management for Eye Care
•Primary Eye Care
•Cataract, Glaucoma, Trachoma, Refractive Errors, Diabetic Retinopathy, Childhood Blindness and Low Vision: Clinical and Programmatic Perspectives
•Technology in Eye Care
Seva Canada is a member of the IAPB and our vision is the same as that of VISION 2020: Seva Canada’s vision is a world in which no one is needlessly blind or visually impaired and where those with unavoidable vision loss can achieve their full potential.
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