Editorial
The many challenges of childhood blindness
CREIG S HOYTUniversity of California, Department of Ophthalmology, 10 Kirkham Street, K 301, San Francisco, CA 94143-0730, USA choyt@itsa.ucsf.edu
WILLIAM V GOOD
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, 2318 Filmore
Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA Good@ski.org
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There are an estimated 45 million blind people in the
world of whom only 3% are children.1 This dramatic
difference in numbers of blind adults compared with children accounts
in part for the relatively minor importance that has been attributed to the problem surrounding childhood blindness. Certainly, the well organised advocacy groups for the elderly in many developed countries are not matched by comparable ones for children. The result of this can
be seen in the difference in resources made available for health
services and research for adult blindness versus childhood blindness.
One hopes that, now that the World Health Organization (WHO) and
International Agency for Prevention of Blindness have developed a
global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness and have included
childhood blindness as one of its five key areas, this will
change.2 In this issue of the
BJO (p 1149) Kocur and co-workers report on
the causes of severe
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