There are some fantastic new estimates coming out of the WHO that 39.8 million people are blind worldwide; which is a decrease of just over 5 million (13%) in the past 6 years!
Around 80% of blindness is avoidable (as in treatable or preventable); and 90% of blind people live in low income countries.
We are winning the war on blindness!
Looking into the dawn of a new decade towards 2020
But a lot of momentum has to keep building to increase efforts even further in the next 10 years to keep going until the job is done..
Looking towards 2020
There are some fantastic new estimates coming out of the WHO that 39.8 million people are blind worldwide; which is a decrease of just over 5 million (13%) in the past 6 years!
Around 80% of blindness is avoidable (as in treatable or preventable); and 90% of blind people live in low income countries.
We are winning the war on blindness!
Looking into the dawn of a new decade towards 2020
But a lot of momentum has to keep building to increase efforts even further in the next 10 years to keep going until the job is done..