THE FRED Hollows Foundation today joined a global call to improve environmental sustainability in eye health. The Foundation is supporting the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness’ (IAPB) declaration of a climate emergency and released a Call to Action for Environmentally…
Women in low and middle-income countries face deeply held cultural norms that prevent them from safely accessing vital eye care services. Currently, 55 per cent of the world’s blind are women. Women are eight per cent more likely to be blind than…
Seven-year-old Leonides was in a hopeless situation. Living in poverty-stricken Burundi, he faced a lifetime of blindness in a country with little access to health care or support for those with vision-impairment.…
ONE third of people with diabetes develop eye damage and with the growing prevalence of the disease the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and The Fred Hollows Foundation have joined forces to launch a new guide for health professionals.…
12.12.14 | AUSTRALIA’s international aid and development agencies invited the Government to renew its commitment to the world’s poorest people.…
21.10.14 | THE Fred Hollows Foundation today paid tribute to former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and in particular his efforts to improve the living conditions of Indigenous Australians.…
