9. Vision 2020
VISION 2020 is a global initiative of the International Agency for the Prevention of
Blindness (IAPB). The initiative seeks to eliminate the main causes of avoidable blindness
to give all people in the world, particularly the millions of needlessly blind, the right to
sight by the year 2020.
Launched by World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, in the year 1999,
jointly with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB),
an international membership of NGOs, professional associations, eye care institutions
and corporations
VISION 2020 programs facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of
sustainable national eye care programs. This includes providing technical support and
advocacy for the prevention of avoidable blindness.
10. Vision 2020
Vision 2020 adalah sebuah inisiatif global dari International Agency for the Prevention of
Blindness (IAPB) yang bertujuan untuk menekan angka kebuataan yang dapat dihindari
(avaidable blindness) sehingga dapat memberikan hak untuk penglihatan pada tahun 20
20
Program ini diresmikan di sejak tahun 1999 oleh WHO bekerja sama dengan NGO,
Eyecare institution, dan pemerintah setempat
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14. Vision 2020
According to Vision 2020 workshop-report for Indonesia, major challenges
of Eye care in Indonesia:
1. Lack of government schemes to support provision of care
2. Lack of ophthalmologist and services concentrated in and around the capital
city and the major cities
3. Insufficient coverage of the population for specialty eye care services
4. Inaccuracy of existing data of blindness development in Indonesia in present time
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16. Services for eye health are still not adequately integrated into the health systems
and policies of LMICs.
Ambitious goals have been set to eliminate avoidable blindness in the current
decade
Radical rethinking and deeper development of eye health systems are necessary
to achieve these goals
Responding to noncommunicable eye diseases will have implications for the eye
health workforce, health management information systems, equipment,
consumables and supplies of medication, for example.
CONCLUSION