Vision Impact Institute, Paris, France.
OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation, Durban, South Africa.
Int J Public Health. 2022 Jul 6;67:1604595. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604595. eCollection 2022.
Advocacy is instrumental to achieving significant policy change for vision. Global advocacy efforts over the past decades enabled recognition of vision as a major public health, human rights, and development issue. The United Nations General Assembly adopted its first-ever Resolution on vision: "Vision for Everyone-Accelerating Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" on 23 July 2021. The Resolution sets the target and commits the international community to improve vision for the 1.1 billion people living with preventable vision impairment by 2030. To fulfill their commitments, governments and international institutions must act now. Advocacy remains instrumental to mobilize funding and empower governments and stakeholders to include eye health in their implementation agenda. In this paper, we discuss the pivotal role advocacy plays in advancing vision for everyone now and in the post-COVID-19 era. We explore the link between improved eye health and the advancement of SDGs and define the framework and key pillars of advocacy to scaling-up success by 2030.
倡导对于实现视力相关政策的重大变革至关重要。过去几十年的全球倡导努力使视力问题得到认可，成为主要的公共卫生、人权和发展问题。联合国大会于 2021 年 7 月 23 日通过了有史以来第一项关于视力的决议：“人人享有视力——加速实现可持续发展目标行动”。该决议设定了目标，并承诺国际社会到 2030 年改善 11 亿人可预防的视力损害问题。为了履行承诺，各国政府和国际机构必须立即采取行动。倡导仍然是动员资金和赋权政府和利益相关者将眼健康纳入其实施议程的关键手段。在本文中，我们探讨了倡导在推进人人享有视力方面现在和后 COVID-19 时代所发挥的关键作用。我们探讨了改善眼健康与推进可持续发展目标之间的联系，并定义了倡导的框架和关键支柱，以实现到 2030 年的成功扩大。
