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Closing the gender gap in eye care across Bangladesh

Globally, women and girls are more likely than men or boys to be blind or suffer from sight loss. For many this can be due to limited financial resources, an inability to travel long distances unaccompanied in some cultures and a lack of women providing eye care. These barriers lead to 112 million more women and girls living with vision loss.

HOYA announces partnership with Orbis UK

Press release: The Vision Care company joins forces with Orbis to fight avoidable blindness in India

Dinknesh: “I love my job because it prevents blindness”

To mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day we want to shine a light on the work of the incredible eye health workers like Dinknesh, who often travel treacherous journeys across the country to complete a crucial task in the fight to eliminate trachoma in Ethiopia.

Volunteers in Focus

International Nurse's Day 2022

On May 12, people around the world celebrate the invaluable work that nurses achieve while helping their patients. This year, we're highlighting some of the nurses from our Orbis community. Read on to learn more about the crucial role nurses perform, and to register for a special webinar.

Catch up with Lin, a former patient

Meet Lin — a former Flying Eye Hospital patient whose bilateral strabismus (squint) was treated 13 years ago by our team of Volunteer Faculty in Myanmar. In 2019 during our Mandalay Flying Eye Hospital training project, we had the pleasure of catching up with a 15-year-old Lin again, to hear how surgery changed her life.

Unaddressed Vision Problems Linked to Many Bus Crashes in Bangladesh, Study Finds

The new research from eye care nonprofit Orbis International is among the first to look at vision and road safety among public transportation workers in low- and middle-income countries.

International Women's Day

Each year on March 8, people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day - an opportunity to reflect on progress towards gender equality and what we can do to create a more fair and equitable world. At Orbis, we know that blindness is a gender issue and are committed to alleviating unequal access to eye care.