36 million people in the world are blind, three quarters from preventable or curable conditions.
90% of the people affected live in low and middle-income countries and many cannot access basic eye care.
This is an immense and invisible global injustice. It is also solvable within our lifetimes.
Simple treatments exist – such as cataract surgery, glasses or antibiotics – which should reach everyone who needs them.
Most people who are avoidably blind, die blind. It is time we stop this.