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In Zambia, a boy teaches his sister how to wash her face to prevent trachoma.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

In the past five years, the DFID SAFE trachoma programme has helped to protect and treat almost 3 million people in Zambia. Here’s what it has taught us.

Glenda Mulenga, August 2019

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Deus Turyatemba of Standard Chartered shares his story of career progression, and explains the bank’s partnership with Sightsavers’ Inclusion Works programme.

Guest Blogger, July 2019

A busy conference chamber at the United Nations.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

We welcome the UK using its VNR to reiterate its commitment to sustainable development, but we want to see more of an emphasis on listening to the voices of marginalised people.

Andrew Griffiths, July 2019

A group of children playing a jumping game outdoors in Cameroon.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

The Charter's approach is simple: signatories decide the action they are going to take to ensure the data they collect and use includes disability.

Linsey Winter, July 2019

A photo of a large group of people, many of them using wheelchairs.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Over two years, Sightsavers in Pakistan worked with strategic stakeholders and national partners to develop a voluntary national review report that focused on disability.

Munazza Gillani, July 2019

Blogs / Eye health /

By using economics, we can make sure our school eye screening programmes are affordable and efficient, ensuring thousands of children in poorer countries can get the eye care they need.

Guillaume Trotignon, July 2019

Julianah from Kogi, Nigeria stands outside a field near her home in Ajenejo, Kogi State Nigeria.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers' river blindness and lymphatic filariasis programme has delivered 60 million treatments in four countries. Here’s what we’ve learned from the project.

Ron Bannerman, June 2019

A group of participants from the Sudan Tropical Data training stand together for a photo.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Health in Sudan invited eye health workers from Somalia and Libya to attend a training session to teach them how to gather data as part of the Tropical Data initiative.

Cristina Jimenez, June 2019

View over the shoulder of a young woman who is reading a braille document with her hands.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Worldwide, only 1-7 per cent of published works are available in accessible formats, partly because of copyright law restrictions. This is often referred to as the ‘book famine’.

Martin Okiyo and Edwinah Orowe, June 2019

A close-up of people placing their hands on top of one another.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers hosted a workshop focusing on practical approaches to disability inclusion, where participants generated ideas to make sure healthcare is as inclusive as possible.

Andrea Pregel, June 2019

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Blogs

Trachoma in Zambia: insights from the SAFE programme

How I’m building a career as a blind person in Uganda

The UK Voluntary National Review: making progress or missing opportunities?

The Inclusive Data Charter: one year on

How Pakistan is keeping disability inclusion on the SDG agenda

It’s all about the numbers: how economics is helping us to save sight in schools

Putting people at the centre of our work to eliminate neglected tropical diseases

How health workers are gathering data to fight trachoma in conflict areas

What’s so great about the Marrakesh Treaty?

12 tips to make health programmes inclusive for people with disabilities

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all