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CBM, in collaboration with Zeiss, has opened a new training centre in Asunción, Paraguay to train eye surgeons across Latin America in the most effective techniques for cataract surgery. The centre is the first in Latin America…

CBM supporters and friends in Northampton enjoyed a rare opportunity to hear from CBM’s former Country Representative for Nigeria this week. Paul Caswell OBE shared stories of his four decades working for CBM in West Africa…

CBM’s Director of Inclusive Eye Health Dr Babar Qureshi and Dr Andrew Bastawrous, CEO and co-founder of Peek Vision, met with Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi this week to discuss plans to eliminate avoidable blindness.

World Hearing Day is coming up on the 3rd March. This globally recognised day allows us to celebrate the progress being made in preventing deafness and hearing loss across the world. But it is also a time to highlight the need for better…

Representatives of Nigerian Federal and State Government health ministries, the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), CBM and Standard Chartered gathered in Abuja yesterday for the official launch of a three-year…

New guidelines launched this week provide clear guidance and standards for organisations responding to crises to help them include older people and people with disabilities in their work.

An article by mental health experts in the Lancet Global Health magazine has highlighted the “unique and important role” of mental health nurses in Sierra Leone in supporting people affected by the devastating mudslides and flooding…

Since August 2017, more than half a million Rohingya people have fled horrific violence in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma), seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Experts from mental health programmes in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria gathered in London this week to share learning about the most effective ways to support people with mental health conditions in Africa.

The new Secretary of State for International Development, Penny Mordaunt, has vowed to “put disability at the heart of DFID” and announced that the UK will host a major Global Disability Summit in July 2018.