Working to make quality eye health and vision care accessible to all

Community Eye Health Journal subscription

Did you know that people in low and middle-income countries can subscribe to the Community Eye Health Journal free of charge?
Put your running shoes on for Vision Aid Overseas!

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!
Falls Awareness Week

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.
WCO announces committee members

We are pleased to announce the new membership of our standing committees.
Action plan receives support from Eastern Mediterranean Region

Saudi Arabia, on behalf of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, urged member states to adopt the new World Health Organization action plan on avoidable blindness.
$3m of funding announced to support innovation in eye health

Seeing is Believing is providing US$3m to support innovation in eye health.
Action plan for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment

The World Health Organization's action plan for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment 20142019 was approved by the World Health Assembly on 22 May.
Multilingual online platform provides breakthrough in optometry education

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