Sentence examples for avoidable cause of blindness from inspiring English sources

In recognition that blindness from ROP is a major avoidable cause of blindness in children in Latin America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has prioritized ROP for control in the region [ 14– 17].

Due in part to some of the challenges discussed above, glaucoma was not included as an avoidable cause of blindness in the VISION 2020 initiative, launched jointly in 1999 by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) [ 28].

Avoidable causes of blindness accounted for 75.4% of all cases.

The data suggests that expansion of eye care programs to address avoidable causes of blindness is necessary in this area of southern Malawi.

Avoidable causes of blindness (cataract, refractive error, corneal scar, surgical complications, trachoma and phthysis) accounted for 80.0% of the total amount of blindness, 70.7% of severe visual impairment and 86.2% of visual impairment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Table 3).

The development of an effective eye care programme to prevent or treat avoidable causes of blindness needs a package of measures that link the different service levels and integrates eye care into the wider health system.

As such it is imperative that existent resources (human, financial, infrastructure and equipment) are used effectively, targeting the major avoidable causes of blindness in order that the goals of VISION2020 are achieved in Nigeria.

Onchocerciasis or river blindness is the second leading infectious cause of blindness in humans.

Tobacco smoking is the main avoidable cause of lung cancer.

Efforts to identify avoidable causes of vascular disease have intensified.

This finding mirrors the VISION 2020 estimate of avoidable blindness of 80% [5].The overall contribution of cataract as a cause of blindness (48.2%) and glaucoma (15.8) are very similar to the recent WHO estimates of causes of blindness [7].