Open Educational Resources for eye care on our website at We encourage the use andĪdaptation of this resource for teaching and learning. Taken from the free online course: Global Blindness: PlanningĪnd Managing Eye Care Services. This work is licensed under aĬreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 © 2016 International Centre for Eye Health, London School of
Global Blindness: Planning and managing eye care services. Global Blindness: VISION 2020: The right to sight Find more Open Educational Resources for eye care on our website at We encourage the use and adaptation of this resource for teaching and learning. Taken from the free online course: Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. © 2016 International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In this presentation we look at how programmes have been implemented in order to address the growing burden of visual impairment and introduce VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, the global initiative to end avoidable blindness. 
It highlighted that immediate action was required. This projection was based on service levels available at the time and the anticipated population growth and ageing across the world. In the mid 1990s it was projected that the magnitude of global blindness would double, from 38 million in 1990 to 76 million by 2020.
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