World Sight Day 2014

World Sight Day 2014 is on 9 October 2014 (the second Thursday of October). World Sight Day 2013 saw numerous organizations putting together events of great verve and colour to draw attention to avoidable blindness and rehabilitation. 2014 is the first year of the WHO Global Action Plan and IAPB encourages our members and partners to continue with our rolling theme: Universal Eye Health

This year, the 'Call to Action' for World Sight Day is: No more Avoidable Blindness.

The Call to Action will draw attention to a few key interventions that are crucial for the success of GAP's target - reducing avoidable blindness by 25%, by 2019. Using the call to action as a clarion call, organisations can identify various aspects of GAP that need urgent attention. They are also invited to customise the call to action, to their disease area - "No more Cataract" or "No more Trachoma" for example.

IAPB identifies the following areas for intervention that are needed to usher in Universal Eye Health. Governments must:

• Collect better evidence on the magnitude and prevalence of blindness prevention
• Train more eye care professionals
• Provide comprehensive eye care services and integrate them into existing health provision/ systems
• Identify and eliminate social and economic obstacles, particularly for the poor and the marginalised.

WSD Event

The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness cordially invites you to join us in celebrating World Sight Day 2014 (9 October 2014, Mexico City).

In collaboration with the Mexican Society of Ophthalmology, IAPB is pleased to invite key leaders in eye health to celebrate our many successes in blindness prevention and to give voice to our collective commitment to universal eye health at this advocacy event in Mexico City.