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J Comm Eye Health Vol. 11 No. 25 1998

Cataract surgical coverage

GLOBAL INITIATIVE 2020
Global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness

Bjorn Thylefors

EDITORIAL
Global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness
D D Murray McGavin

ARTICLES
Cataract surgical coverage: an indicator to measure the impact of cataract intervention programmes
Hans Limburg, Allen Foster

Cataract surgical coverage in Kolenchery, Kerala, India
Sasikumar S, Mohamed Naved, Saikumar S J

The role of patient counsellors in increasing the uptake of cataract surgeries and IOLs
Asim Kumar Sil

Is there a role for ACIOLs in developing countries?
Allen Foster, Albrecht Hennig

Workshop on Community Ophthalmology, Peshawar, Pakistan

SYMPOSIUM REPORT

ABSTRACTS
A clinic based survey of blindness and eye disease in Cambodia
Ian Thomson

Risk of ocular hyper-tension or open-angle glaucoma in elderly patients on oral glucocorticoids
Edeltraut Garbe, Jacques LeLorier, Jean-Francois Boivin, Samy Suissa

The importance of prenatal factors in childhood blindness in India
J S Rahi, S Sripathi, C E Gilbert, A Foster

LETTERS

Sterilization of surgical instruments
Dr Ralph Heaton

Sterilization of surgical instruments
Kapal Mit Singh

Landmine injury
Paul Courtright DrPH

NOTICES

A textbook of clinical ophthalmology. A practical guide to disorders of the eyes and their management (2nd edition)

Community eye health courses 1998/9

Indian Supplement to the Journal

High quality low cost intraocular lenses (IOLs)

New publication available from the International Resource Centre: The epidemiology of eye disease

Obituary. Dr Joseph Taylor OBE FRCS FRCOphth

Standard List of Medicines, Equipment, Instruments and Optical Supplies

The Royal College of Ophthalmologists Diploma in Ophthalmology Examination