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Blogs / Fighting disease /

Reaching the Last Mile Fund is advancing health equity in Africa

By prioritising marginalised groups, we’re helping to ensure that everyone can access treatment for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.

Sunday Isiyaku, September 2025
Three women from Cameroon sit around a table during a working group to support people with disabilities on gender-based violence. Behind them is a banner with information about the SDGs.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Are the Sustainable Development Goals a lost cause?

With only five years to go until 2030, Sightsavers’ Grace Antwi-Atsu explains why we must rally all efforts to make the most of the global goals.

Grace Antwi-Atsu, August 2025
Steven Kaindaneh and Alexandre Chailloux.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

How can maps help combat violence against children with disabilities?

Maps have played a key part in ensuring the voices and experiences of children with disabilities can guide our work to address school-related gender-based violence.

Sightsavers, August 2025
Rasak Adekoya stands in an office.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Young people with disabilities must shape policies that affect their lives

On International Youth Day, Sightsavers’ Rasak Adekoya highlights why it’s important to include and empower young people with disabilities.

Rasak Adekoya, August 2025
A girl wearing a hijab is handed a white tablet to protect her from intestinal worms.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Safeguarding children’s futures: why it’s vital to continue supporting deworming programmes

Parasitic diseases can have a severe impact on a child’s health and education. That’s why the international community needs to step up funding for future treatment campaigns.

Ndellejong Cosmas Ejong, July 2025
A large group of men and women pose for a photo. Behind them is a banner that reads 'Training of persons with intellectual disabilities on citizenship and political participation'.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Acknowledged but not engaged: people with intellectual disabilities continue to be left behind

Decision-making and politics are becoming more inclusive of people with disabilities. However, people with intellectual disabilities still face barriers.

Colleen Roberts, June 2025
Mariana Rudge.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Moving from intention to action is key to inclusive education for all

Following the Global Disability Summit, Sightsavers and the Global Partnership for Education share how world leaders can achieve quality schooling for children with disabilities.

Sightsavers, May 2025
A woman smiles at the camera.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

How we’re working towards a society that respects the rights of women with disabilities

In Ghana, we’ve launched a programme to strengthen the civil society representation of women with disabilities and help break down barriers to inclusion.

Ruth Atengdem, May 2025
Joe smiles at the camera.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Why there can be no disability justice without labour justice

Significant progress is still needed to tackle longstanding inequalities and wage gaps for people with disabilities. Here’s how Sightsavers is taking action.

Joe Buckley, May 2025
Veronica Stapleton.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

To achieve quality education for all, disability inclusion is critical

At the CIES conference, there were many examples of innovative uses of digital technology, but strategies for reaching children with disabilities were rarely discussed.

Veronica Stapleton, April 2025
Sightsavers' employee Hannah smiles at the camera with the sea in the background.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

As Global Disability Summit 2025 ends, can world leaders deliver on promises and target inequality?

After seven years and three summits, are we making the progress we so vitally need?

Hannah Loryman, April 2025
Salamatu stares into the camera.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Women are most at risk from trachoma: here’s how we can help

Women are four times more likely than men to be blinded by trachoma, an infectious eye disease. But Sightsavers’ Accelerate programme is working to address this inequality.

Sightsavers, March 2025
A portrait image of Sarah smiling.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women with disabilities must be involved in planning economic empowerment programmes

Sightsavers’ Sarah Wang’ombe shares what we’ve learned about running effective programmes.

Sarah Wang’ombe, March 2025
Portrait pictures of Sightsavers' researchers.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Making schools safer for children with disabilities

Dr Steven Kaindaneh and Dr Julia de Kadt explain how our new research puts children with disabilities at the centre of efforts to combat gender-based violence.

Sightsavers, December 2024
A group of smiling women in Nigeria hold posters and leaflets about family planning.
Blogs / Women and girls /

Creating lasting change for women with disabilities in Kaduna, Nigeria

We're attending the Global Health Practitioners Conference to showcase our work to improve access to sexual health services for women with disabilities.

Salome Luka Net, October 2024
Three children wash their hands with soap at a sink.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

How people across Pakistan collaborated to beat trachoma

Sightsavers’ Adnan Youhana shares how eliminating the eye disease was a true team effort, involving surgeons, radio hosts and Lady Health Workers.

Adnan Youhana, October 2024
Twelve-year-old Arthur smiles as he stands next to his teacher, Mr Thompson. They stand in front of a chalk board in a classroom.
Blogs / Eye health /

Child eye health is key to wellbeing and accessing education

In line with World Sight Day’s focus on child eye health, our experts reveal why eye screenings in schools are boosting students’ academic performance.

Sightsavers, September 2024
Abigail Brown and Boma Cliford Fosong.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

How we’re advancing inclusive data

Sightsavers recently launched the Inclusive Data Network to share our knowledge on inclusive data with the international development community.

Sightsavers, August 2024
A lab scientist in Nigeria examines samples under a microscope.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

How our research could help more than 50 million women

Sightsavers researchers are working to understand how we can care for women with female genital schistosomiasis, a devastating disease that affects millions of women in Africa.

Omosefe Osinoiki, June 2024
Patience from Liberia wearing her new glasses, whilst standing next to her mother, betty.
Blogs / Eye health /

If we have vision, we can transform universal access to spectacles

Glasses can be life-changing for someone with refractive error. That’s why we’ve joined the World Health Organization’s SPECS 2030 initiative.

Sumrana Yasmin, May 2024
A female researcher speaks to a woman about her experience of female genital schistosomiasis.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Why community collaboration is important in our research

Our research on female genital schistosomiasis has shown the need to establish a safe environment for participants when studying sensitive topics.

Omosefe Osinoiki, April 2024
Johannes Trimmel
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

The key to inclusive education is engaging organisations of people with disabilities

Collaborating with disability groups has earned the Inclusive Futures consortium a Zero Project Award in 2024.

Johannes Trimmel, February 2024
Hortance stands alongside a man at a Sightsavers event stand.
Blogs / Eye health /

Six takeaways from the International Conference for Public Health in Africa

Sightsavers’ Hortance Manjo shares insights from the event in Zambia, which highlighted eye health for the first time.

Hortance Manjo, January 2024
A woman receives medication to treat river blindness from community volunteer.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Expanding the Reaching the Last Mile Fund: a game-changer for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis

The funding pledge is a huge step towards eliminating the diseases.

Phil Downs, December 2023
A mother and her young daughter hug and smile.
Blogs / Eye health /

Going beyond health: the role eye care plays in the SDGs

Eye health has an impact on numerous Sustainable Development Goals, and has a ripple effect that improves gender equity, education, economic and health outcomes.

Fiona Lawless, December 2023
Ophthalmologist Alinafe uses a torch to check a man's eyes.
Blogs / Eye health /

Why eye health is crucial for universal health coverage

Everyone will require eye care services at some point in life, but universal health coverage cannot be achieved unless everyone, wherever they live, has affordable access to the eye care they need.

Fiona Lawless, December 2023
Three women discuss gender-based violence at a workshop in Uganda.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Collaborating to improve gender-based violence services

Women and girls with disabilities face a higher risk of gender-based violence, yet they are often prevented from receiving support due to inaccessible services.

Lucy Muchiri, November 2023
Salifat smiles at the camera
Blogs / Fighting disease /

The world is making progress on eliminating lymphatic filariasis – yet we urgently need to finish the work

Sightsavers’ Roland Bougma shares what action needs to be taken to ensure the disease is eliminated as a public health problem globally.

Roland Bougma, November 2023
In a village in Mozambique, two people in blue polo shirts hold clipboards and talk to members of the local community.
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Lifting the rock on inclusive data: Sightsavers and the Inclusive Data Charter

We spoke to Dominic Haslam, Sightsavers’ director of policy and programme strategy, about the launch of our second Inclusive Data Charter Action Plan and how it reaffirms our commitment to inclusive data. 

Sightsavers, November 2023
Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Improving contraceptive choices and bodily autonomy for women and girls with disabilities

There is compelling evidence that improving access to contraception can reduce mortality and high-risk pregnancies, improve child health and increase protection against sexually transmitted infections.

Andrea Pregel and Amalie Quevedo, September 2023
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