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  • How Non-Profit Organizations Help to End Avoidable Blindness in Kano

    July 07, 2023 |

    Nigeria Info FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    With the help of several nonprofit organizations, the ECWA Eye Hospital provides free cataract surgery to help those in need who can’t afford the expensive surgery. The Hospital began providing free surgeries in 2016 and has since restored the sight of 5,800 people.

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  • Vision of Hope: Free Surgeries Illuminate Lives of Underserved Children in Lagos

    June 01, 2023 |

    HealthNews.ng |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Restore Foundation for Child Sight provides free eye care, including eye exams, medications, glasses and surgeries to children in underserved communities. The Foundation hosts outreach events to connect with children in need of care and has helped over 5,000 children so far, distributing 455 pairs of glasses, 1,200 eye drops and about 35 free eye surgeries.

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  • The blind women detecting early stage breast cancer in India

    April 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, Vapi, Gujarat

    A medical tactile examiner (MTE) is a new, emerging profession for blind and visually impaired women in India and Europe that trains women to give tactile breast examinations to detect signs of breast cancer. The MTE profession originated in Germany but since 2017, 18 MTEs have been trained in India, and have since screened thousands of women and participated in several breast cancer awareness campaigns.

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  • A Visually Impaired Nigerian Is Training Others To Use Gadgets With Ease

    May 12, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kogi State

    In a country where the prevalence of blindness for all ages is 4.2% of the population, Zions Assistive Tech Solutions (ZATS) trains people who are blind on how to effectively use technology like phones and computers.

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  • The Doctor Is Out, and These Babies Are Healthier For It

    December 10, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India

    The Karnataka Internet Assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity program has trained and accredited non-physician imagers to screen premature newborns for retina disease, which has a small window of diagnosis for treatment to be effective. This “task-shifting” model allows trained imagers to replace specialists for the screening by going into the field and using a low-cost and indigenously developed camera to upload images to a telemedicine platform, where a retina specialist makes a diagnosis. They have screened 70,000 infants and several other countries have adopted KIDROP’s “task-shifting” model.

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  • ‘It's your baby, and it's, like, wow': 3-D images from ultrasounds allow blind parents to feel their infant's face

    August 09, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    3D ultrasound print outs help doctors perform non-invasive surgery in utero and provide blind parents with images during pregnancy. Doctors at Johns Hopkins hospital first used 3D models to improve surgery for spina bifida in utero. By placing one inside a soccer ball doctors can practice ahead of time for a less invasive procedure. A sonographer at the hospital expanded the approach to create 3D ultrasound models for patients who are blind. Some caution that ultrasounds are just diagnostic tools, but providing a picture of their ultrasound to someone who cannot see it in the traditional sense is powerful.

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  • An App That Can Catch Early Signs Of Eye Disease In A Flash

    October 07, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Waco, Texas

    It's often difficult to detect eye diseases such as cancer in infants and toddlers because they have trouble sitting still, but a new smartphone app is helping eliminate this challenge. Parents are able to scan photos of their child within the app, and using artificial intelligence, the app attempts to detect early signs of diseases.

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  • Colombia's flying doctors

    September 26, 2019 |

    Struggles from Below Magazine |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Due to rural conditions and political unrest throughout the region, many in Colombia struggle to access health care, but a group of volunteer pilots is tackling this problem by bringing the health care to the communities that need it. Although the effort started out small, the program now includes 300 volunteer health professionals and 70 volunteer pilots.

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  • Lego releases Braille bricks to teach blind and visually impaired children

    April 24, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Billund, Jutland

    The Lego Company has released a new product called Lego Braille Bricks that is designed for blind and visually impaired children to learn Braille in a playful way. The concept was originally proposed to them by two foundations for the blind (one is Danish and one is Brazilian), so Legos prototyped with them to come up with the final set of 250 bricks that feature the complete Braille alphabet, numbers from zero to nine, math symbols, and more. These bricks will improve education for children with vision impairments, and reactions to the product have already been glowing.

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  • A smart solution to vision problems

    April 10, 2019 |

    Nature |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    An ophthalmologist has created a smartphone application that allows not just doctors, but also non-specialists such as teachers, to conduct eye tests. The application helps those living in remote areas to access a service they otherwise may not be able to get and also allows for the few ophthalmologists who live in the area to only see the cases that are deemed necessary.

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