http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/ en-uk World Council of Optometry weewee.wong@pixl8.co.uk RSS Feed for Home Did you know that people in low and middle-income countries can subscribe to the Community Eye Health Journal free of charge? http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/cehj 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! http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/VAO-run 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. http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/falls We are pleased to announce the new membership of our standing committees. http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/new-committees Saudi Arabia, on behalf of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, urged member states to adopt the new World Health Organization action plan on avoidable blindness. http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/EMR-WHO Seeing is Believing is providing US$3m to support innovation in eye health. http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/seeing 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. http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/who-update The Global Optometry Resource platform is now operational in three new languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese. http://worldoptometry.org/en/news/index.cfm/global-resource