Published November 18, 2008, last updated on March 7, 2013 under Research News
Cataracts. Trachoma. Corneal Blindness. They aren’t killers, but they create misery for millions of people – mostly in the developing world.
How to provide proven treatments for these diseases and conditions to the people who need them was the topic of the November 13 symposium at Duke, “Global Blindness: Integrated Approaches to a Cure.” The symposium was co-sponsored by the Duke Eye Center and the Duke Global Health Institute.
Keynote speaker Dr. Gullapalli Nag Rao, the Distinguished Chair of International Ophthalmology at the LV Prasad Eye Center, Hyderabad, India and president of the World Health Organization (WHO) Vision 2020 program, reviewed statistics about blindness (see sidebar) and summed up the challenge:
“The burden of blindness is most prevalent in the most neglected populations.”
