Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, Good Samaritan Foundation, Moshi, Tanzania.
Glob Public Health. 2010;5(6):639-48. doi: 10.1080/17441690903539541.
The VISION 2020 initiative aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Cataract, the main cause of blindness and other visual impairment, is a main focus of this effort. In India, the Aravind Eye Care System provides an impressive model demonstrating how high quality eye care, including cataract surgery, can be delivered to large numbers and made affordable to all. Similarly, financially self-supporting systems have not been developed at this point in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the factors that lead to success at Aravind, and compares and contrasts the conditions in India with those found in much of sub-Saharan Africa.
“视觉 2020”行动倡议旨在 2020 年前消除可避免盲。白内障是导致失明和其他视力损害的主要原因，也是该行动的重点。在印度，阿拉文眼科保健系统提供了一个令人印象深刻的模式，展示了如何向大量人群提供高质量的眼科保健，包括白内障手术，并使所有人都能负担得起。同样，在撒哈拉以南非洲，目前还没有建立起自负盈亏的系统。本文探讨了导致阿拉文成功的因素，并比较和对比了印度的情况与撒哈拉以南非洲大部分地区的情况。
