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Republic of Congo

Total Population 3,689,000*
Life Expectancy for men 53 years*
Life Expectancy for women 55 years*
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP 2.1%*
* Source: World Health Organization (WHO).
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Prévention de la Cécité

Partner: The Salvation Army
Project #: P955

Providing essential eye care services to the people of Brazzaville.

Supported by CBM since 1985, the Prevention of Blindness programme is run by the Salvation Army in the capital of Brazzaville, which has a population of around 1.5 million people.

The programme is one of the only services providing high quality and affordable eye care in the capital.

Despite repeatedly suffering from civil war disruption, the programme has continued to maintain a reasonable level of care due to a staff of two cataract surgeons and two ophthalmic clinical officers who were trained at the Centre Formation Ophthalmique d'Afrique Centrale (CFOAC) in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Regular visits are made to the programme by CFOAC surgeons to perform more complicated surgeries.