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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June Declared Cataract Awareness Month to Educate Public on World’s Leading Cause of Vision Loss

Cataract is the world’s leading cause of blindness, accounting for approximately 42 percent of all cases of blindness in all nations. In the United States,...

May

Prevent Blindness Announces Recipients of 2020 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health, and Rising Visionary Award

Prevent Blindness has announced the recipient of the “2020 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health,” as the Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Program...

May

Prevent Blindness Unveils New Brand Identity, Logo and Website

National non-profit to incorporate new look into forthcoming “Be a Visionary” campaign, designed to encourage support of its sight-saving programs Prevent Blindness announced today the...

May

2020 Bonnie Strickland Award Call for Nominations

Annual Award Recognizes Outstanding Efforts to Improve Eye Health Services for Children in the United States The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at...

May

New Educational Resources on Inherited Retinal Diseases, Importance of Genetic Testing and Services

Prevent Blindness declares Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) Genetic Testing Week, May 17-23, in effort to provide new educational resources to public In order to help patients...

Apr

Flattening the InAccessibility Curve

Prevent Blindness has partnered with organizations and companies in a collaborative project to collect data and information about the experiences of individuals who are blind...

Apr

Important Message to Eye Care Patients Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic

CMS has issued a patient guide for beneficiaries seeking non-COVID care: Re-Opening America: What Patients Should Know About Seeking Healthcare For everyone’s health and safety,...

Feb

Meet Charlotte – A True Success Story

Charlotte is one of the many success stories that we receive each month from parents, nurses, and caregivers. We hear a similar story to hers...

Feb

Free Resources to Employers and Employees to Help Keep Vision Healthy

Prevent Blindness Declares March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to Help Protect Employee Vision According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 2000...

Feb

Prevent Blindness Provides Educational Resources on Uveitis and Keratitis for Rare Disease Day

Prevent Blindness provides free resources to the public, including fact sheets, an educational video and dedicated webpages to help save sight from Inflammatory Eye Disease,...

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