Cure Blindness Project enables underserved communities to cure avoidable blindness by developing high-quality, cost-effective, sustainable eye care wherever they are.

Our Model Cure Blindness Project works to overcome barriers impeding delivery of cataract care to underserved, needlessly blind people in the developing world.

Feb 28, 2000 · Cataract intervention in the developing world: knock-on development through mentoring hospitals Cataract

The eyes are still developing until the age of seven or eight years old, so the possibility of saving single binocular vision is greater in younger patients. Treatment includes glasses, contact lenses, prism …

Sep 18, 2025 · Read the full study here. Today, Cure Blindness Project’s primary care team has scaled this prevention model and expanded training of community health workers to Nepal and Ethiopia. …

Aug 28, 2000 · The benefits of sutureless cataract surgery have not been available to the majority of developing world patients.

To make that happen, we enable underserved communities to cure avoidable blindness by developing high-quality, cost-effective, sustainable eye care wherever they are.

Mar 28, 2025 · Opthalmology is developing quickly. With new concepts, technology and updated requirements. Learning the skill of pupilloplasty will be essential to us due to a higher number of …

The vision was dismissed as overly ambitious, an idea too bold for a developing country. Undeterred, Dr. Ruit and his team pursued their mission to establish a facility that could produce IOLs on par with …

To review surveys published within the last year concerning the prevalence of cataract blindness, rates of cataract surgical coverage and visual outcomes of cataract surgery in various developing …