Blindness in children is considered a priority area for VISION 2020, as visually impaired children have a lifetime of blindness ahead of them.1 Various studies across the globe show that one-third to half of childhood blindness is either preventable or treatable1 and that cataract is the leading treatable cause of blindness in children.2 The 8th General Assembly of the International Agency for ...

AIM This cross sectional study was undertaken to identify the major causes of childhood severe visual impairment/blindness (SVI/BL) among students in schools for the blind in south eastern Nigeria with a view to offering treatment to those with remediable blindness. METHODS 142 students attending three schools for the blind in the study area were interviewed and examined using the World Healt...

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Childhood blindness and visual impairment are as important and perhaps more devastating and disabling than adult onset blindness, because of the long span of life still remaining to be lived. Refractive errors and more particularly myopia, place a substantial burden on the individual and society. School-age children constitute a particularly vulnerable group where uncorrected refractive errors ...

Childhood blindness and visual impairment are as important and perhaps more devastating and disabling than adult onset blindness, because of the long span of life still remaining to be lived. Refractive errors and more particularly myopia, place a substantial burden on the individual and society. School-age children constitute a particularly vulnerable group where uncorrected refractive errors ...

Examinations were performed on the 108 blind Jamaican children (VA less than 6/60 in the better eye) in residential care. The congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) was the leading preventable cause of childhood blindness, accounting for 22% of children examined. Improvement of the rubella immunisation programme and the introduction of appropriate surgical procedures constitute recent attempts to co...

Genetic factors are the main causes of childhood blindness in developed countries (Sorsby, I966; Fraser and Friedmann, I967; Merin, Lapithis, Horowitz, and Michaelson, I972; Goldstein, 1972). In developing countries infections as causes of blindness in childhood outnumber the genetic factors (Rodger, I959; Phillips, I96I; Wilson, I962; Olurin, 1970). Malnutrition in these countries resulting in...

AIM To estimate the prevalence and causes of blindness in children in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. METHODS These data were obtained as part of two population based studies in which 6935 children <or=15 years of age participated. Blindness was defined as presenting distance visual acuity <6/60 in the better eye. RESULTS The prevalence of childhood blindness was 0.17% (95% con...