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An eye health worker uses a torch while checking a man's eyes for trachoma.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sarah Bartlett discusses Sightsavers’ involvement in this milestone, what we’ve learned from the experience and the work that lies ahead.

Sarah Bartlett, September 2018

A five-year-old girl in Ethiopia has her eyes checked for trachoma.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper says we could be just years away from one of the greatest achievements in human health: ridding the world of trachoma.

Caroline Harper, April 2018

A young boy wearing a colourful face mask and a bright yellow jumper covers hish right eye with his hand during an eye test.

Blogs / Eye health /

In 2013 a devastating Ebola outbreak decimated Liberia's already fragile healthcare system. Yet during this period, Sightsavers continued to operate.

Imran Khan, August 2017

Blogs / Eye health /

Sightsavers gap maps show where evidence exists, or there are ‘gaps’ in the evidence on cataracts, diabetic retinopathy and refractive error.

Bhavisha Virendrakumar, May 2017

Art student painting the Inclusive Eye Health mural in Bhopal.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Art students in Bhopal painted striking murals along the wall of a hospital to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Andrea Pregel, December 2016

A close-up of a researcher's hands as they write data onto a sheet of paper.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

How do we react when outcomes aren’t what we expect? The mystery of Cameroon’s Western Region sheds light on the process.

Sarah Bartlett, April 2016

A spoon is used to place two tablets into a child's hand.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

What do Evodia, Abena and Mariama all have in common? They’re three of the millions of women in the fight against infectious diseases of poverty.

Helen Hamilton, March 2016

A 45-year-old lady is standing on crutches. She is wearing bright red clothes and a boy is asleep on a bed behind her.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women with disabilities often face double, or rather triple, discrimination: for being disabled, for being women and for being poor.

Munazza Gillani, March 2016

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Colleagues at Sightsavers have been working on a series of blogs around gender equity, particularly focusing on women with disabilities in development.

Sightsavers, March 2016

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

I’d like to draw attention to the rights of women during disasters.

Fred Smith, March 2016

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What we’ve learned from trachoma elimination in Ghana

What if we eliminated one of the world’s oldest diseases?

The challenges facing health and education in Liberia

Eye health evidence gap maps

Young artists get creative to promote disability inclusion

Research sleuths: how we investigate blips in our NTD elimination projects

Health heroes: the women working to eliminate NTDs

Disrupting the patriarchy through disability rights

Violence against women with disabilities

Rights during disasters: what about women with disabilities?

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