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Preventable blindness in Africa

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.4.334

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    It has been estimated that some 1.4 million children around the world are blind and about three quarters of them live in Asia or Africa. Much of this blindness could be prevented or treated and a report from Nigeria (IR Ezegwui and colleagues. Br J Ophthalmol 2003;87:20–23) well illustrates this point.

    In southeastern Nigeria there …

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