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Bookmark or Share- Onchocerciasis - World Health Organization (WHO)Transmitted by the bites of infected blackflies, river blindness causes severe itching and eye lesions, leading to visual impairment and permanent blindness. Almost eliminated in the region of the Americas. #BeatNTDs
- Assistive technology - World Health Organization (WHO)WHO fact sheet on assistive technology. Assistive technology enables people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives, and to participate in education, the labour market and civic life.
- World report on vision - World Health Organization (WHO)At present at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a vision impairment, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The world faces considerable challenges in terms of eye care, including inequalities in the coverage and quality of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services; a shortage of trained eye care ...
- Eye care, vision impairment and blindness - World Health Organization (WHO)Eye conditions that can be targeted effectively with preventive strategies include congenital and acquired eye conditions, myopia, ocular trauma, and ocular infections and inflammations.
- Trachoma - World Health Organization (WHO)Key facts. Trachoma is a disease of the eye caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.; It is a public health problem in 38 countries and is responsible for the blindness or visual impairment of about 1.9 million people.
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