Category: Vision 2020 – Caribbean

Announcing The 2013 Annual Meeting of Vision 2020 Committees Representatives for the Caribbean on Tuesday December 3rd & Wednesday December 4th in Kingston, Jamaica. Purpose of the meeting: • This meeting will provide a platform for sharing, learning and networking and will strengthen links between V2020 Committees and persons involved in eye health. • Participants will become familiar with perspectives from other areas and will be exposed to new thinking, technologies and opportunities that can be used to benefit eye health service delivery in their countries. • The meeting will pay particular attention to Diabetic Retinopathy – one of the most prevalent causes of blindness in …

2011 ANNUAL MEETING OF VISION 2020 COMMITTEES-REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE CARIBBEAN EVALUATION FORM FEEDBACK This form may be downloaded at this link.

Causes of visual loss and their risk factors: an incidence summary from the Barbados Eye Studies. M. Cristina Leske, Suh-Yuh Wu, Barbara Nemesure, Anselm Hennis and Barbados Eye Studies Group Objectives. To summarize incidence and risk factors for each main cause of visual loss in an African-Caribbean population and discuss the implications of these data from a public health perspective.

A cross-sectional, descriptive study to measure: Knowledge, attitudinal and behavioural (social practices) effects which a positive diagnosis of glaucoma may have on affected patients of the Eye Department of the FISH Medical Clinic, Gordon Town Road, St. Andrew, Jamaica. Researcher: Arvel Grant, B.Sc-Sw (Hons) DPA, MPH (download the full report in pdf format here)

Blindness and low vision are a public health problem throughout the world, this is why the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) together with NGOs have launched VISION 2020 – the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness.  This initiative that brings together governments, WHO, international and national NGOs, as well as associations of professionals in eye care, aims to determine global, regional and national plans of action in prevention of avoidable blindness and inclusive services. In the Caribbean VISION 2020 was officially launched in Trinidad-Tobago in April 2000. (download the full …