Stand for action! Eye care and Sustainable Development Goals
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https://doi.org/10.64666/joecsa.2018.170Abstract
The College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa region (COECSA) and its members promote and advocate for the implementations of SDGs. By so doing COECSA, considers the theme of the 2018 annual congress to correlate with SDGs entitled as ‘Stand for action! Eye care and Sustainable Development Goals.’ It is known that eye health is strongly linked to the
SDGs framework as it prioritizes and advocates the allocation of government resources and promote a global partnership for development. SDGs will have bigger impact on eye health by alleviating poverty and reducing inequality. People with unavoidable blindness and visual impairment (people with disability=PWD) are given due consideration on 11 of the 17 goals which need due attention of inclusive development
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