Guangzhou walkathon puts spotlight on disability
Guangzhou, China, 24 May 2013: Government, charity and commercial organisations joined together to promote disability awareness at the 10th Guangzhou Huiling Charity Walkathon held in China recently
Donated equipment helps optometry students in Mali and Kenya
Kakamega, Kenya, 17 May 2013: A leading UK manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments has joined the fight against uncorrected vision impairment and avoidable blindness, by donating essential optometric equipment
Educators logical starting point for eye health in India
Bansara, India, 16 May 2013: Optometry and eye health educators are the future to providing quality eye care services to the more than one hundred million people unnecessarily vision impaired in India.
Change as good as a holiday for lens wearers?
Sydney, Australia, 13 May 2013: Relief from dry eye and other symptoms of discomfort experienced by contact lens wearers may come through simply switching contact lens products a new study has found.
Handover of five provincial vision centres in Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 10 May 2013: Celebrations were in order last week in Phnom Penh, marking the official handover of five vision centres now established and operating in five previously underserved provinces of Cambodia
Carr announces avoidable blindness initiatives
Sydney, Australia, 2 May 2013: Foreign Minister Bob Carr today announced that the Australian Government will provide funding to two Australian organisations to help tackle avoidable blindness in developing countries






