Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

REVIEW ARTICLE
Year
: 2012  |  Volume : 60  |  Issue : 5  |  Page : 380--386

The accomplishments of the global initiative VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and the focus for the next 8 years of the campaign


Peter Ackland 
 International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Disease, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom

Correspondence Address:
Peter Ackland
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Disease, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

In the first 12 years of VISION 2020 sound programmatic approaches have been developed that are capable of delivering equitable eye health services to even the most remote and impoverished communities. A body of evidence around the economic arguments for investment in eye health has been developed that has fuelled successful advocacy work resulting in supportive high level policy statements. More than a 100 national plans to achieve the elimination of avoidable blindness have been developed and some notable contributions made from the corporate and government sectors to resource eye health programs. Good progress has been made to control infectious blinding diseases and at the very least there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the global increase in the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment has been reversed in recent years, despite the ever increasing and more elderly global population. However if we are to achieve the goal of VISION 2020 we require a considerable scaling up of current efforts-this will depend on our future success in two key areas: i) Successful advocacy and engagement at individual country level to secure significantly enhanced national government commitment to financing their own VISION 2020 plans.ii) A new approach to VISION 2020 thinking that integrates eye health into health system development and develops new partnerships with wider health development initiatives.


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Ackland P. The accomplishments of the global initiative VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and the focus for the next 8 years of the campaign.Indian J Ophthalmol 2012;60:380-386


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Ackland P. The accomplishments of the global initiative VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and the focus for the next 8 years of the campaign. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2012 [cited 2024 Mar 29 ];60:380-386
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