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A group of smiling women in Nigeria hold posters and leaflets about family planning.

Creating lasting change for women with disabilities in Kaduna state, Nigeria

Sightsavers is attending the Global Health Practitioners Conference in Nairobi on 28-31 October 2024, to showcase our innovative work to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services for women with disabilities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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
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