2024

Proposed Bipartisan Legislation Would Create First Federally Funded Program to Address Children’s Vision and Eye Health

2023

Advocacy Action Alert: Protect Access to Sight-Saving Glaucoma Care!
Prevent Blindness and Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington, DC to Host World Sight Day Congressional Briefing and Vision Screening Event
Prevent Blindness Encourages Advocates to “Love Your Eyes at Work” this World Sight Day 2023
Prevent Blindness urges enhanced role for vision and eye health in first major opportunity to change Older Americans Act program regulations since 1988
The Most Urgent Voice in Eye Research -The Patient’s
Prevent Blindness Statement on Texas Court Decision Regarding ACA Preventive Services
Prevent Blindness Eighteenth Annual “Eyes on Capitol Hill” Event
Prevent Blindness supports UN Special Envoy on Vision appointment

2022

FY 2023 funding includes $6.5M for CDC’s Vision & Eye Health Programs

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Apr

Kira Baldonado Appointed Vice President of Public Health and Policy

Prevent Blindness has announced the appointment of Kira Baldonado as vice president of public health and policy, effective immediately. In this new position, she will...

Mar

Prevent Blindness Applauds Congress for Increasing FY18 Investments to CDC’s Vision Health Programs

As a result of Prevent Blindness advocacy in partnership with our affiliates, partners, and advocates across the country, Congress has increased spending to a number...

Mar

Prevent Blindness Appoints Jeff Todd as New President and Chief Executive Officer

Leader in Public Health and Policy to Take On Position at National Non-Profit Dedicated to Saving Sight Prevent Blindness announced today that Jeff Todd has...

Mar

Torrey DeKeyser Elected as Chairperson of the Prevent Blindness Board of Directors

Prevent Blindness has announced that Torrey DeKeyser, Executive Director of the EyeSight Foundation of Alabama (ESFA), has been elected as Chairperson of the Prevent Blindness...

Feb

Keeping Your Eyes Healthy at Work

March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month from Prevent Blindness Prevent Blindness has declared March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to provide employers and employees with...

Feb

#WhyEyeFight

BAUSCH + LOMB and the organization, Prevent Blindness® Encourage People to Fight for their Sight During February, AMD Awareness Month Campaign Encourages People to Share...

Feb

Bausch + Lomb and Prevent Blindness Encourage People to Fight for Their Sight During AMD Awareness Month

Campaign Encourages People to Share their #WhyEyeFight Stories to Bring Awareness to this Progressive Eye Disease BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey, (Feb. 6, 2018) – Bausch +...

Jan

Prevent Blindness Urges Congress to Extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program

As the nation’s leading volunteer eye health organization, Prevent Blindness has consistently advocated for policies that ensure Americans of all ages have access to the...

Dec

Free Information Available to the Public for Glaucoma Awareness Month

Cases of Glaucoma, the “Sneak Thief of Sight,” Projected to Increase Significantly in Near Future As the population of the United States ages, the number...

Nov

Prevent Blindness Urges HHS to Protect Patient Access to Vision Care

HHS proposal would allow states to scale back Essential Health Benefits requirements Prevent Blindness has issued a response in opposition to a proposal by the...

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