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An eye health worker looks at images on a laptop during a trachoma training session.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

As even more countries get closer to eliminating trachoma, a new challenge is emerging: how to keep the health workforce well-trained on identifying signs of the disease.

Jeremiah Ngondi and Caleb Mpyet, July 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

In my years as a disability advocate, I’ve learned that getting angry needs to be accompanied by getting active. We wanted to advise organisations on how to do better to include women and girls with disabilities.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, July 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Joseph Mensah shares four key learnings from a SBC programme in Ghana that aims to reduce stigma around disability, and how they'll inform our future SBC work.

Joseph Mensah, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Cathy Stephen shares what we've learned from embedding inclusive, accessible social behaviour change processes in some of our recent projects in East and West Africa.

Cathy Stephen, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares successes and what we learned from the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie participation project, which Sightsavers supported as a partner to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Peter Kwasi, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Through Ghana Somubi Dwumadie, Sightsavers’ Diane Kingston delivered training that will help protect and promote effective mental health provision and human rights in Ghana.

Diane Kingston, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Simon Brown shares how organisations like Sightsavers can influence labour markets to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in decent employment.

Simon Brown, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Saleck Ould Dah and Ujala Sarfaraz highlight two key issues around disability inclusion that are hampering efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sightsavers, June 2023

An eye health worker checks a man's eyes for signs of trachoma.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Boubacar Morou Dicko shares the obstacles Mali faced on the road to eliminating trachoma, and how the country was able to overcome them.

Boubacar Morou Dicko, May 2023

Sightsavers CEO CAroline Harper during her TED Talk, standing in front of large red letters spelling TED.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

In 2018, Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper took to the TED stage to talk about the importance of eliminating trachoma. Since then, 14 million people have been protected from the disease, but further progress hangs in the balance.

Caroline Harper, April 2023

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Blogs

A good problem: why new training methods are needed to eliminate trachoma

First anger, then action: why you should sign the Feminist Accessibility Protocol

Social behaviour change: a game-changer to reduce stigma

Inclusive, accessible social behaviour change: what it is and how to do it

“In Ghana, the work we began on disability inclusion will continue”

How we’re championing mental health and human rights in Ghana

Why disability-inclusive employment benefits all of us

Why disability rights are integral to the Sustainable Development Goals

How Mali overcame three big challenges and eliminated trachoma

My TED talk helped to protect millions of people from trachoma. Now you can help make history

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all