UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Be fully informed, make the right decisions and effectively manage your KC, facilitated by information networking of like minded people.

Thanx to an attendee (a parent of a teenage KCer) at the recent Manchester KC group meeting who kindly provided the following link which I checked out last night (worth a look imo):-

http://www.kcglobal.org

On February 18, 1999 the World Health Organization and a broad coalition of international, non-governmental and private organizations launched in Geneva a global initiative:

VISION 2020 - The Right to Sight

The objective of the initiative is to eliminate avoidable vision loss globally, by the year 2020 and giving every person the right to 2020 sight.

On December 22, 2006, Keratoconus (KC) Global, with points of presence in over 120 countries, was honored to represent Keratoconus for the World Health Organization’s
"VISION 2020 - The Right to Sight” global initiative

Vision 2020 is doing a fantastic job - I was talking to an optometrist about it when I was in Madagascar earlier in the year. It is very humbling to know just how much that aim can be achieved (eliminating avoidable vision loss) just through enabling more people in developing countries to have access to cataract surgery, and someone who can prescribe spectacles. Vision 2020 is primarily about the 5 most common causes of avoidable blindness: refractive error, cataract, childhood blindness (from a whole range of causes - vitamin A deficiency, retinopathy of prematurity...) trachoma and onchocerciasis. It's great to see keratoconus being recognised and included.