Avoidable blindness in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Avoidable blindness in Sub-Saharan Africa - 12-03-2008, 05:00 AM

Three quarters of *blindness in sub-Saharan Africa is due to five treatable or preventable conditions as Justin Sherwin explains There is a disproportionate amount of blindness in Africa, which is home to 19.8% of the world’s blind but only 11.5% of the population. (1) In 2001, it was estimated that approximately 1% of the continent was [...]

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