BACKGROUND The northeastern region (NER) of India is geographically isolated and ethno-culturally different from the rest of the country. There is lacuna regarding the data on causes of blindness and severe visual impairment in children from this region. AIM To determine the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness amongst children from schools for the blind in the four states of NER ...

One hundred and thirty Tanzanian children with corneal ulceration were clinically examined to determine the cause of the ulceration. 37% of the ulcers were associated with recent measles infection and 38% of the children had bilateral ulceration. Herpes simplex virus infection was the commonest cause of ulceration in the series, but vitamin A deficiency was the major cause of bilateral ulcerati...

S: 1. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2002 Oct;43(10):3209-15. Economic evaluation of orthoptic screening: results of a field study in 121 German kindergartens. Konig HH, Barry JC, Leidl R, Zrenner E. Department of Health Economics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. [email protected] PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze the cost-effectiveness of an orthoptic screeni...

Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a common cause of blindness and accounts for up to 10% of childhood blindness in developed countries. Also Before surfactant became available in the NICU, an incidence of 11% to 60% was reported in the VLBW population. However, there are few studies on the incidence of ROP among low-birth-weight (LBW) infants in Iran and the aim of this study is d...

Over the last 20 years, much has been achieved in controlling blindness in children. Prior to the launch of VISION 2020, a number of international initiatives and programmes had raised the profile and increased interventions for child health and survival, which also had a positive impact on eye diseases and blindness in children, e.g. the Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI )(1974) and the...

Background: Childhood blindness is a serious issue which has to be dealt with importance because the disability adjusted life years (DALY) loss in blind child much more than that of adults blindness. The ability read and write any one language improves their confidence makes them independent. It gives hope not just live but also make living. This study was done emphasize on braille. analyses pr...