About the Program

The five-year Western Province Blindness Prevention Program aims to contribute towards eliminating avoidable blindness in the Rubavu District of the Western Province in Rwanda.

Program objectives include:

• To enhance the capacity of eye health personnel to deliver and manage eye health services
• To ensure that the physical infrastructure, equipment and supply needs are addressed in the Rubavu District, to support the delivery of prevention of blindness services
• To improve the quality, quantity and delivery of blindness services in the Rubavu District
• To raise the profile of blindness as a public health issue and to build support for eye health programs in Rwanda

The program will also provide funding support for the East African Journal of Ophthalmology and the National Conference of the Ophthalmic Society of East Africa.

Further information about the program will be provided soon.