Port au Prince, Haiti, April 13, 2018: Today we celebrate the momentous occasion of opening the first optometry school in Haiti. The initial 19 students are the pioneers of their profession for Haiti...
- April 11, 2018
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Education
Mali, Africa, 1 March 2018: Drissa Coulibaly is one of a kind. He is one of the initial graduating Optometric Technicians from the first intake of students enrolled in the inaugural school of optometry at the Institut Ophtalmologique Tropical d'Afrique in Mali...
- February 28, 2018
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Gauteng, South Africa, 8 February, 2018: Today marks the celebration of increased eye health services in Gauteng, already providing eye care for nearly half a million people in the last four years.
- February 5, 2018
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Sydney, Australia, 30 January 2018: The Global Board of Optometry Giving Sight announced today that it will merge its operations into the Brien Holden Vision Institute Foundation.
- January 29, 2018
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A new interactive, online, myopia management course is available to optometrists in USA and Canada and begins on March 21, 2018.
- January 25, 2018
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Sydney, Australia, 13 October 2017: The Eye-Inspire series brings the inspiration and scientific stimuli that has propelled forward some of the brightest minds in eye health. Professor Kovin Naidoo is one of those minds, hear his interview...
- October 12, 2017
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Sydney, Australia, 12 October 2017: The ‘make vision count’ theme on World Sight Day today urges everyone to preserve and protect their vision by taking action...
- October 11, 2017
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Professor Padmaja Sankaridurg surveys the latest evidence on myopia management contact lenses in an invited review in Clinical and Experimental Optometry.
- September 18, 2017
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Sydney, Australia, 21 August 2017: A new evidence-based myopia ‘calculator’ developed by the Brien Holden Vision Institute will help support clinicians in communicating and educating patients in managing myopia appropriately.
- August 2, 2017
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Sydney, Australia, 3 August 2017: A new study published in The Lancet journal has estimated that more than 1 billion people are vision impaired because they do not have access to a pair of reading glasses.
- August 2, 2017
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