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Source: VCA WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience The WHO Eye and Vision Care team and a team at ICEH collaborated in a systematic review of published literature and guidelines on newborn eye screening, resulting in the inclusion of newborn eye screening in WHO’s guideline, for the first time.
Source: VCA WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020: progress report on elimination of trachoma, 2020 The number of people at risk from trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, remained stable in 2020 despite disruptions to community-based interventions caused by COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in its Weekly…
Source: VCA Closing the Leadership Gap: Gender Equity and Leadership in the Global Health and Care Workforce This report is a product of the Global Health Workforce Network’s Gender Equity Hub (GEH), co-chaired by World Health Organization (WHO) and Women in Global Health. The principal author was Ann Keeling (Women in Global Health), under the…
Source: VCA Core competencies for the eye health workforce in the WHO African Region The competencies framework can be used as a guide for self-directed learning, as an advocacy tool, and for assessments. There will also be a broad range of users of the competencies including Educational institutions; Learners of eye health; Professional associations; Licensing…
Source: VCA A Global Strategy on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases 2021-2030 The Strategy supports the achievement of the targets of the 2021-2030 road map on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It sets out the critical role of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for prevention, care and management of NTDs, and the…
Source: VCA Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals A road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030 Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are ancient diseases of poverty that impose a devastating human, social and economic burden on more than 1 billion people worldwide, predominantly in tropical and subtropical areas among the most vulnerable, marginalized…
Source: VCA WHO WEBINAR – WHO’s work building on the World Report on Vision – Questions This is a summary and questions from a WHO webinar – WHO’s work building on the recommendations of the World Report on Vision.
Source: VCA Catalogue of key eye health In order to assess trends in the prevalence and causes of visual impairment, including blindness, to measure progress made by Member States in preventing visual impairment, including blindness, and to monitor implementation of the Global Action Plan 2014-2019 for a universal eye health, a set of core process…
Source: VCA WHO Rehabilitation Guide for Action The development and field testing of this resource was coordinated by Pauline Kleinitz, Rehabilitation Programme, WHO, with the support of Alarcos Cieza, Coordinator for Vision, Hearing, Rehabilitation, Disability, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO.
Source: VCA Primary Eye Care Training Manual The purpose of this manual released by the WHO Regional Office for Africa is to provide guidance in the design, implementation and evaluation of a course that aims to build and strengthen the capacity of health personnel to manage eye patients at primary-level health facilities in the African…
