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Impact of Eye Health Surveys and Partnerships in The Gambia

4 October 2023 | Hannah Faal, Abba Hydara, Islay Mactaggart, Matthew Burton, Marcia Zondervan, Covadonga Bascaran | Ophthalmology

This article brings together the three national eye health surveys that have been undertaken in The Gambia between 1986 and 2019 and the impact that the results have had nationally and internationally. In it we describe the long-term capacity-strengthening for...

The Gambia-Swansea VISION 2020 LINK: building eye care services and international friendships

1 June 2014 | Suzanne Martin, Winston Ceesay, Haddy Sohna, Marcia Zondervan | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

History The VISION 2020 LINK between the Sheikh Zayed Regional Eye Care Centre (SZRECC), Banjul, The Gambia and the Ophthalmology Department, Singleton Hospital, Swansea started in 2008 under the guidance of the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme at the International Centre...

Orbis teams up with the Alcon Foundation and OMEGA to improve eyecare in Zambia

29 September 2023 | orbis, Flying Eye Hospital, alcon, OMEGA, Zambia, Africa

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital returns to Zambia for a three-week training project in Lusaka coinciding with World Sight Day on October 12.

Charity partners celebrate 10 years in Zambia

15 October 2021

Vision Aid Overseas and Specsavers are celebrating 10 years of working together.

New vision programme will test the sight of 47,500 rural Zambians

12 July 2023 | VisionSpring, Live Well, CCZ, eyecare services, international, Zambia, rural areas, test

Last month, VisionSpring, Live Well (affiliated with CARE International) and the Council of Churches Zambia (CCZ) officially launched the Reading Glasses for Improved Livelihoods (RGIL) programme in Zambia.

The International Centre for Eye Health: weaving the global threads together

4 October 2023 | Marcia Zondervan, Hannah Faal, Covadonga Bascaran | Ophthalmology

The VISION 2020 LINKS & Networks Programme has been writing regular articles in Eye News about its capacity-strengthening activities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for more than a decade. This, the first International Issue, is a landmark for Eye...

COVID-19 and Ophthalmology: RCOphth, ICEH and COECSA joint webinar

13 August 2020 | Elanor Watts, Victor Hu, Will Dean, John Buchan, John Nkurikiye, Mike Burdon, Josiah Onyango, Marcia Zondervan | COVID-19, Ophthalmology

The Royal College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COECSA) and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (the Royal College) have had a successful VISION 2020 LINK partnership for over 12 years. The partnership was established by the VISION...

The world in union

4 October 2023 | David Lockington, Baljean Dhillon (Prof)

"It’s the world in union, the world as one…” Hearing these lyrics as a sports fan means only one thing: it’s time for the Rugby World Cup! This four-yearly sporting extravaganza should hit your TV screens around the same time...

Building leaders for eye care in Africa: the COECSA-RCOphth VISION 2020 LINK

1 April 2015 | Nick Astbury, Denise Mabey, Josiah Onyango, Marcia Zondervan | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

The VISION 2020 LINK [1] between the College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COECSA) and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has been building leaders of eye care in Africa since 2008, when a Memorandum of Understanding...

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