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World Sight Day 2011
October 13 is World Sight Day, a day to consider the 39 million blind people across the world. Sight organisations have made vast progress in the battle to eliminate avoidable blindness, but we still have a way to go.
Help us eliminate avoidable blindness
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Approximately 284 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness
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Of these, 39 million people are blind and 245 million have low vision
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90% of blind people live in low-income countries
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Yet 80% of blindness is avoidable - i.e. readily treatable and/or preventable.
> For more information on the global campaign to eliminate avoidable blindness visit www.vision2020.org