SDG 01: No Poverty

To end extreme poverty, we must also end blindness

Jun 28, 2021

Patients cover their eyes as they wait before their cataract surgery on the Lifeline Express, a hospital built inside a seven-coach train, at a railway station in Jalore, India, March 31, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "LIFELINE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC13F252F8E0

In low- and middle-income countries cataracts account for 50% of all blindness. Image: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Tej Kohli

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Needless and avoidable blindness is disproportionately prevalent in low-income countries. Image: Data from VLEG/GBD 2020 model, accessed via the IAPB Vision Atlas

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