World Council of Optometry

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1. Community Eye Health Journal subscription

   19 June 2013

   Did you know that people in low and middle-income countries can subscribe to the Community Eye Health Journal free of charge?

2. Put your running shoes on for Vision Aid Overseas!

   18 June 2013

   If you are based in the UK and would like to raise money for Vision Aid Overseas? - one of our affiliate members - then get your running shoes on!

3. Falls Awareness Week

   18 June 2013

   It's Falls Awareness Week in the UK, and this is a great time to remind ourselves of the link between falls and failing vision.

4. WCO announces committee members

   18 June 2013

   We are pleased to announce the new membership of our standing committees.

5. Action plan receives support from Eastern Mediterranean Region

   7 June 2013

   Saudi Arabia, on behalf of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, urged member states to adopt the new World Health Organization action plan on avoidable blindness.

6. $3m of funding announced to support innovation in eye health

   6 June 2013

   Seeing is Believing is providing US$3m to support innovation in eye health.

7. Action plan for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment

   6 June 2013

   The World Health Organization's action plan for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment 2014–2019 was approved by the World Health Assembly on 22 May.

8. Multilingual online platform provides breakthrough in optometry education

   3 June 2013

   The Global Optometry Resource platform is now operational in three new languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese.

9. No Tobacco Day

   31 May 2013

   Smoking is known as a major risk factor for developing macular degeneration and has been linked to cataract.

10. WCO attends first Jordanian congress

    31 May 2013

    The Jordanian General Association of Optics (GAOP), in collaboration with the Jordanian Ophthalmic Society and the Middle East Africa Council of Ophthalmology, hosted its First International Congress in Amman last week.

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