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Television presenter Diane Louise Jordan has added her voice to CBM’s new Save Sight campaign to prevent childhood blindness across some of the world’s poorest places.

In May 2018, CBM won the International SOS Foundation Duty of Care Award in Chicago, USA. The awards recognise outstanding achievements in meeting high standards of health, safety and security at work. It honours organisations…

To mark International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, actress Dame Penelope Wilton has spoken out about the need to tackle obstetric fistula and expressed her support for CBM’s work treating women with the condition.

An art exhibition and choir concert at St Barnabas Church on Mill Road, in Cambridge, will raise vital funds to help women living with the debilitating condition obstetric fistula.

Antibiotics to treat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness were delivered to thousands of people living in remote corners of war-torn Yemen for the first time ever last week. The distribution was the result of…

A new advocacy paper by CBM UK highlights the particular challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities and recommends how the UK Government can help to promote equality and inclusion through its aid and development work.

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…