World Sight Day (WSD) 2018: Eye Care Everywhere

World TB Day —March 24, 2018

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world sight day 2013 memorandum - farabi statement on the prevention of blindness and eye health

the world sight day (wsd) is held on the 2nd thursday of october to emphasize the importance of sight and impact of vision impairment. this observance is a joint initiative of the international agency for the prevention of blindness (iapb), the world health organization (who) and other international non-governmental organizations.1   the celebration resonates with vision 2020 initiative for the...

Women and kidney disease: reflections on World Kidney Day 2018

World Kidney Day and International Women's Day 2018 are commemorated on the same day (March 8), an opportunity to highlight the importance of women's health, and particularly, their kidney health. On its 13th anniversary, World Kidney Day promotes affordable and equitable access to health education, health care, and prevention for all women and girls in the world. In this article, we focus on w...

World TB Day 2018: The Challenge of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

On 24th March, the world commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Over 130 years later, tuberculosis (TB) continues to affect individuals, communities, and entire health systems and economies. Koch unsuccessfully tried to 'cure' TB, and despite major advances in other areas of medicine, control of TB remains elusive- in 2016 T...

World Sight Day: Singapore's contribution to alleviating corneal blindness.