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Glaucoma: a Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness

This free online course explores the public health approach to glaucoma. Develop a public health understanding of glaucoma, its lifelong management, and raising awareness for better quality eye care. Join course

Glaucoma-NET Objectives for 2024

Glaucoma-NET Objectives for 2024:

To roll out the Simulation based Trabeculectomy Training Programme across Sub-Saharan Africa in order to equip ophthalmologists with the surgical skills required for delivering high quality glaucoma surgery.

Please do share the resources you may have developed so that we can expand and develop a comprehensive skills training programme.  The Glaucoma Toolkit is available in the Resources section.

To develop regional data sets of clinical practice which clinicians can input real world data on characteristics of glaucoma patients and outcomes of interventions.  In future, this will highlight trends and areas of need and provide benchmarks from which we can together, develop optimal service delivery protocols.”

Diagnosis of glaucoma in the community in Uganda: The Glaucoma Screening and Treatment (GLAST) project for Southwestern Uganda

Mbarara University of Science and Technology, through the department of ophthalmology at Mbarara University and Referral Hospital Eye Centre (MURHEC), in collaboration with Christian Blind Mission (CBM), piloted a glaucoma screening and treatment project in Uganda that aimed to make a substantial contributiontowards fighting this cause of avoidable blindness. Our project aimed to: Improve awareness of glaucoma among…Read Details

Enhancing glaucoma awareness and management in Nigeria – from grass roots to national policy development

This article describes the key activities of Glaucoma-NET within Nigeria in collaboration with the Glaucoma Society of Nigeria (GSN) in the early part of 2023. It focuses on activities aimed at enhancing skills among ophthalmologists, improving glaucoma awareness and adapting the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) glaucoma toolkit to a glaucoma practice…Read Details