Gender and Eye Health - equal access to care

The Lions Club of Castries joins with VISION 20/20 in fighting against blindness in children.

Up to 80% of the world's blindness is avoidable.

Avoidable blindness is defined as blindness which could be either treated or prevented by known, cost-effective means. Although there are many other causes of vision impairment. VISION 2020 seeks to address the main causes of avoidable blindness, in order to have the greatest possible impact on vision loss worldwide.

 The causes of childhood blindness vary, but the main avoidable causes are:

• cornea scarring;
• cataract
• glaucoma
• retinopathy of prematurity
• refractive errors
• low vision, which encompasses visual impairment and blindness from untreatable causes;