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APPROACHES TO PREVENTION OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT 3. VISION 2020: THE RIGHT TO SIGHT The global initiative known as ‘VISION 2020: the right to sight’ was launched in 1999 and is now an established partnership between WHO and the IAPB. 3.1 MISSION, AIMS, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES To eliminate the main causes of avoidable blindness by the year 2020 by facilitating the planning, development and implementation of sustainable national eye-care programmes based on the three core strategies of disease control, human resource development and infrastructure and technology, incorporating the principles of primary health care. This will be achieved by mobilizing will and passion for action through advocacy and by mobilizing resources. The vision of VISION 2020 is a world in which no one is needlessly blind and where those with unavoidable vision loss can achieve their full potential. Its aims are to eliminate the main causes of avoidable blindness by the year 2020 and to prevent the projected doubling of avoidable visual impairment between 1990 and 2020. From the outset, it has been considered that the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020 would best be achieved by integrating an equitable, sustainable, comprehensive eye-care system into every national health system. The initiative is intended to strengthen national health-care systems and facilitate national capacity-building. The objectives of VISION 2020 are to: • raise the profi le in key audiences of the causes of avoidable blindness and the solutions to the problem; • advocate for and secure the necessary resources to increase prevention and treatment activities; and • facilitate the planning, development and implementation of national VISION 2020 programmes in all countries. National programmes have three main elements: cost-effective disease control, human resource development and infrastructure and technology. VISION 2020 is built on a foundation of community participation. Overarching issues, such as equity, quality of services and visual outcomes, are addressed as part of national programmes. 53
VISION 2020 GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS: ACTION PLAN 2006–2011 3.2 STRUCTURE VISION 2020 is a global collaboration between WHO and the IAPB. It is implemented on the basis of a legally adopted agreement for collaboration on the prevention of blindness. The initiative operates through a network of global, regional and national coordinating bodies (Figure 8), and the work plans for VISION 2020 are determined at periodic meetings of the two organizations. Figure 8. Structure of VISION 2020 WHO IAPB (partnership) WHO prevention of blindness & deafness team IAPB Board of Trustees, President & support staff Public relations and advocacy Resource mobilization National programme development WHO REGIONS Africa The Americas South-East Asia Europe Eastern Mediterranean Western Pacific National VISION 2020 programmes Province- or district-level VISION 2020 services 54
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SUMMARY The global initiative known
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