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Global child health
Integrating primary eye care into global child health policies
  1. Aeesha Nusrat Jehan Malik1,2,
  2. Milka Mafwiri3,
  3. Clare Gilbert1
  1. 1 Department of Clinical Research, International Centre of Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  2. 2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
  3. 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dares Salaam, Tanzania, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Aeesha Nusrat Jehan Malik, International Centre of Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E7HT, UK; aeesha.malik{at}lshtm.ac.uk, draeeshamalik{at}gmail.com

Abstract

Globally, approximately 75% of blind children live in low-income countries (LICs). Almost half of blindness and low vision in LICs is due to avoidable causes such as corneal scarring from measles infection, vitamin A deficiency disorders, use of harmful traditional eye remedies, ophthalmia neonatorum and cataract.

  • comm child health
  • ophthalmology
  • health services research

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https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-313536

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    • Competing interests None declared.

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