BACKGROUND: Over two-thirds of Africans have no access to eye care services. To increase access, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends integrating eye care into primary health care, and the WHO Africa region recently developed a package for primary eye care. However, there are limited data on the capacities needed for delivery, to guide policymakers and implementers on the feasibility of integration. The overall purpose of this study was to assess the technical capacity of the health system at primary level to deliver the WHO primary eye care package. Findings with respect to service delivery, equipment and health management information systems (HMIS) are presented in this paper. METHODS: This was a mixed-methods, cross sectional f...
Glaucoma in Africa is sometimes referred to as the silent thief of sight. In Nigeria, glaucoma is co...
Background: Evidence shows that poor utilization of available eye care services by potential benefic...
The models for addressing the delivery of an eye-care service in sub-Saharan Africa have seen consid...
BACKGROUND: Over two-thirds of Africans have no access to eye care services. To increase access, the...
BACKGROUND: To increase access to eye care, the World Health Organization's Africa Region recently l...
BACKGROUND: Approximately 90% of the 253 million blind or visually impaired people worldwide live in...
BACKGROUND Approximately 90% of the 253 million blind o...
Over 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are blind or visually impaired, the majority from avoid...
New primary eye health care policies have the potential to profoundly change how eye health is deliv...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to establish the technical capacities needed to deliver the WHO ...
Integration of primary eye care (PEC) into the existing primary healthcare (PHC) system is efficient...
Background . The provision of population-wide, accessible, affordable, acceptable and evenly distrib...
BACKGROUND: There is currently limited information as to which conditions are most prevalent in comm...
To assesswhether the ophthalmic cases presenting at aNigerian tertiary eye unit are appropriate for ...
Glaucoma in Africa is sometimes referred to as the silent thief of sight. In Nigeria, glaucoma is co...
Glaucoma in Africa is sometimes referred to as the silent thief of sight. In Nigeria, glaucoma is co...
Background: Evidence shows that poor utilization of available eye care services by potential benefic...
The models for addressing the delivery of an eye-care service in sub-Saharan Africa have seen consid...
BACKGROUND: Over two-thirds of Africans have no access to eye care services. To increase access, the...
BACKGROUND: To increase access to eye care, the World Health Organization's Africa Region recently l...
BACKGROUND: Approximately 90% of the 253 million blind or visually impaired people worldwide live in...
BACKGROUND Approximately 90% of the 253 million blind o...
Over 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are blind or visually impaired, the majority from avoid...
New primary eye health care policies have the potential to profoundly change how eye health is deliv...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to establish the technical capacities needed to deliver the WHO ...
Integration of primary eye care (PEC) into the existing primary healthcare (PHC) system is efficient...
Background . The provision of population-wide, accessible, affordable, acceptable and evenly distrib...
BACKGROUND: There is currently limited information as to which conditions are most prevalent in comm...
To assesswhether the ophthalmic cases presenting at aNigerian tertiary eye unit are appropriate for ...
Glaucoma in Africa is sometimes referred to as the silent thief of sight. In Nigeria, glaucoma is co...
Glaucoma in Africa is sometimes referred to as the silent thief of sight. In Nigeria, glaucoma is co...
Background: Evidence shows that poor utilization of available eye care services by potential benefic...
The models for addressing the delivery of an eye-care service in sub-Saharan Africa have seen consid...