Sentence examples for eradicate blindness from inspiring English sources

He wanted to eradicate blindness altogether.

In 2000, she founded Second Sight, a charity which works to eradicate cataract blindness in rural India.

Money spent in certain ways such as on campaigns to eradicate river blindness and smallpox, or to raise rice yields—has been spectacularly successful.

His mission was audacious: to eradicate unnecessary blindness.

Your bigger purpose is to eradicate avoidable blindness because you know there are opportunities.

The Aravind mission of eradicating needless blindness will continue, forever inspired by the vision of this extraordinary man.

In subsequent decades, WHO largely eradicated polio, river blindness, and leprosy.

Larry Brilliant, a medical doctor, technology veteran and friend to the Grateful Dead, has worked for the World Health Organization to help eradicate smallpox, has tried to tackle blindness in South Asia through his own Seva Foundation, and once led a wi-fi joint venture of Intel, IBM and AT&T called Cometa.

He first joined the Center in 1987 as the senior consultant for the health programs, where he led the Center's efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease and river blindness worldwide.

For more than 20 years, the Carter Center has worked to control, eliminate and eradicate neglected diseases, including Guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis, that affect the poorest of the poor.

The widespread use of antimicrobial drugs in developing countries for indications other than trachoma may play a role in eradicating one of the world's leading causes of preventable blindness.