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A group of cataract patients smile broadly after surgery.

Eye health / Reports /

The ‘Seeing is Believing’ (SiB) initiative is a global intervention aimed at tackling avoidable blindness in areas of high need.

Nazondani Mologeni, 76, having her eyes checked by OCO Harold Malinda.

Eye health / Reports /

The programme aimed to increase access to eye health services and to reduce the cataract surgical backlog in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

A woman reads from a chart during a sight test in Mozambique.

Eye health / Reports /

The Advancing Healthy Communities programme aimed to develop a mid-level eye care workforce to increase access to eye health services and to reduce the cataract surgical backlog in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

A mother with her son in Dhaka. He is wearing his new spectacles.

Eye health / Reports /

The project aimed to strengthen eye care facilities, increase awareness of eye care among poor urban communities, and increase access to eye services.

A boy smiles and is embraced by his father after having his dressings removed following eye surgery in Bangladesh.

Eye health / Reports /

The project aimed to train paediatric ophthalmic teams, improve leadership and management, and establish a paediatric outpatient department.

News / Eye health /

In their annual letter, they predict that we’ll “see the last of diseases like river blindness, and blinding trachoma, which disable tens of millions of people in poor countries”.

January 2015

News / Eye health /

Sunetra, who plays Dr Zoe Hanna on medical drama Casualty, has been an ambassador for Sightsavers since 2009.

September 2014

A woman is given sunglasses following cataract surgery in Kenya.

Eye health / Reports /

This five-year intervention was funded by the European Union and co-funded by international NGOs led by Sightsavers.

Eye health / Reports /

This management response is submitted by the Post Health for Peace Initiative and its partners in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and the Gambia, following a its final evaluation undertaken by independent consultants.

A man sitting outside with a huge smile.

Eye health / Reports /

The evaluation assessed the implementation of the PQO over the 5-year period from 2009 until 2013 and was conducted in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

A sign telling people to wash their hands and face with soap to prevent trachoma.

Blogs / Eye health /

"I’ve been in Zambia these last two weeks looking at the eye healthcare system, and I’ve been reminded about the unintended consequences."

Andrew Griffiths, June 2014

Four-year-old Arman smiles in his new dark glasses, as he's held by his father after his cataract surgery in Bangladesh.

Eye health / Reports /

The goal of the project was to eliminate avoidable blindness from Bangladesh by 2020.

Eye health / Reports /

The programme has succeeded in meeting output targets set for the region and provided access to eye health services to at least 60% of the population.

A boyhas his eyes examined by a health worker in Senegal.

Eye health / Reports /

This project was implemented in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and the Gambia, and aimed to establish good-quality, accessible and affordable eye care services.

A boy in Pakistan wears special spectacles during an eye test.

Eye health / Reports /

Sightsavers’ Pakistan Country Office developed a five-year project on child eye health in slum areas of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad.

A woman has her bandages removed after undergoing trachoma surgery in Kenya.

Eye health / Reports /

The Kenya Eye Programme 2009-2013 was part of an eye health programme that began in the 1990s to introduce eye health services throughout Kenya.

Eye health / Reports /

Evaluation of the Innovation Fund, part of the Sightsavers Programme Partnership Arrangement with the UK’s Department for International Development.

Eye health / Reports /

A report detailing how improving eye health and reducing blindness is achievable, cost-effective and contributes significantly to poverty reduction.

Patients waiting to attend a trachoma clinic.

Eye health / Reports /

A Sightsavers initiative outlining objectives to eliminate trachoma, which, according to the International Coalition for Trachoma Control, affects at least 110 million people living in areas where trachoma is endemic.

A doctor performs cataract surgery in Tanzania.

Eye health / Reports /

A policy guide by Sightsavers describing how services for cataract fit strategically with the international health agenda.

A health worker uses eye care equipment in Malawi.

Eye health / Reports /

A document outlining Sightsavers' position on the shortage of health care workers in developing countries, caused in part by increasing migration.

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Kolkata Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Programme: end-of-term evaluation

Advancing Healthy Communities in East Africa: end-of-term evaluation

Advancing healthy communities in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe: final evaluation

Bangladesh Dhaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project: evaluation

Strengthen national capacities on paediatric ophthalmology in Bangladesh: end-of-term evaluation

Bill and Melinda Gates: trachoma and river blindness will be eliminated by 2030

Sightsavers ambassador Sunetra stars in Strictly Come Dancing

Promoting quality ophthalmology in East Africa project: end-of-term evaluation

Post Health for Peace Initiative: final evaluation

Promoting quality ophthalmology in East Africa: evaluation report

Unintended consequences in health care

Vision Bangladesh project: end-of-term evaluation

Post Health for Peace Initiative: evaluation reports

Post Health for Peace Initiative in West Africa: end-of-term evaluation

Pakistan Urban Paediatric Eye Care Programme: mid-term review

Support to the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation: Eye Care Programme Kenya 2009 to 2013: end of term evaluation

Sightsavers’ Innovation Fund: evaluation

Strengthening eye health: a focus for health systems

A SAFE solution: Sightsavers’ fast-track initiative to eliminate blinding trachoma

Cataract services policy 2010

Human resources for health and international migration