{"id":675,"date":"2019-10-09T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T10:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionelenabarraquer.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T10:09:29","slug":"world-sight-day-wsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacionelenabarraquer.com\/en\/world-sight-day-wsd\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sight Day (WSD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year too, the theme is \u2018Universal Eye Health\u2019, and the &#8216;Call to Action&#8217; is \u201c<strong>Vision First!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) and their partners launched the much-anticipated World Report on Vision.<\/p>\n<p>It is unacceptable that more than a billion people are affected by treatable or avoidable sight loss. And this number is projected to balloon in the coming years. <strong><em>Globally more than <\/em><\/strong><strong>2.2 billion<\/strong> people have a vision impairment. Of those at least <strong>1 billion people<\/strong> have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be treated. As usual, this burden is not borne equally: it weighs heavily on people from low- and middle-income countries, women, older persons and those from ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>36 million people who are blind<\/li>\n<li>217 million people with moderate or severe distance vision impairment<\/li>\n<li>1 billion people cannot see well as they lack spectacles<\/li>\n<li>Of those with blindness and MSVI, 124million people have uncorrected refractive errors and 65 million have cataract\u2014more than 75% of all blindness and MSVI is avoidable<\/li>\n<li>253 million people blind or vision impaired (in 2015)<\/li>\n<li>The prevalence of blindness and vision impairment combined has dropped from 4.58% in 1990 to 3.37% in 2015<\/li>\n<li>89% of vision impaired people live in low and middle-income countries<\/li>\n<li>55% of moderate or severely vision impaired people are women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Report recognises that solutions must focus on integrated, people-centred eye care. 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