CD53-11

PLAN D’ACTION POUR LA PRÉVENTION DE LA CÉCITÉ ET DES DÉFICIENCES VISUELLES

53e CONSEIL DIRECTEUR

66e SESSION DU COMITÉ RÉGIONAL DE L’OMS POUR LES AMÉRIQUES

Plan of Action for the Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment

CD53/11

53rd Directing Council

66th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas 2014

49t^h Directing Council. 61^st Session Of The Regional Committee. Washington, D.C., USA, 28 September-2 October 2009.  Plan  of Action on the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment.

Pan American Health Organization. Strategic Plan for Vision 2020: The Right to Sight. Caribbean Region.   Washington, D.C. and Barbados 2002.

OPS/PBL/2002.1  PAHO/CAR/3.1/02.06

Contents:

1. Background

2. Vision 2020 Mission in the Caribbean

3. Regional Activities Proposed for Vision 2020

Reduction of Disease Burden

Cataract

Refractive Errors and Low Vision

Diabetes Mellitus

Childhood Blindness

Glaucoma

 

Human Resource Development

Infrastructure and Appropriate Technology

Eye Care Promotion, Public Education and Advocacy

Regional Coordinating Mechanism

Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality of Care

 

4. Conclusion

WHA59.25 Prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The Fifty-ninth World Health Assembly, Ninth plenary meeting, 27 May 2006–Committee A, sixth report.