Priority on the following eye diseases according to the World Health Organization global VISION 2020 agenda * :
Cataract
Trachoma
Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
Childhood blindness
- Vitamin
A deficiency
- Ophthalmia
neonatorum
- Rubella
cataract
Refractive error and low vision
- Myopia (short-sightedness)
- Hyperopia
(long-sightedness) - Presbyopia
- Astigmatism (when the eye can sharply image a straight line lying only in one meridian)
Diabetic retinopathy
Glaucoma
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