More eye care managers graduating...
Another eight Community Eye Health managers obtained their Postgraduate Diploma in Community Eye Health (PgDCEH) in 2011. Although seemingly a small number, the PgDCEH helps to ensure that there is a steady increase in trained community eye health (CEH) managers in the sub-Saharan African region. The shortage of managers in CEH in the region is critical, resulting in poor service delivery, especially to the blind and poor. Click here to read more... |
CEHI receives award from Mpumalanga
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Ophthalmic registrars trained
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Eight more PgDCEH graduates!
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First ever Community Eye Health conference held in South Africa!
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Ophthalmology registrars ready for community eye health!
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CEHI Director receives Citizen’s Award
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First graduates of the UCT CEHI!
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Pathfinders on the road to community eye health
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Eye care programme management for Africa
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Vision 2020 paying dividends The number of people in the world suffering from visual impairment has come down significantly in the past nine years, but it is up to health-care workers to keep that downward trend going. So said Professor Colin Cook on 22 July at his inaugural lecture, Vision 2020 -The right to sight. Click here to read more... |
The Community Eye Health Intitute was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Mpumalanga Department of Health in Nelspruit. 
A record number of delegates participated in the annual Community Eye Health workshop for Last year, eight opthalmology registrars from five South African universities participated in the Registrars' Vision 2020 workshop (attendees pictured alongside, with the course convenor and two delegates from the Western Cape Department of Health). 
Eight more students obtained their Postgraduate Diploma in Community Eye Health (PgDCEH) in 2010. The PgDCEH is a unique programme that trains participants in Vision 2020 programme management. Vision 2020 is an initiative which aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), in collaboration with the World Health Organisation launched this initiative in 1999. 
The first ever Community Eye Health mini-conference was held at Pienaardam Leisure Resort near Middelburg in Mpumalanga between 30 November and 2 December 2010.
The 6th annual Registrars Vision 2020 Workshop was held at the CEHI Training Centre from 13 to 15 April 2010. The lead faculty was Dr Karin Lecuona. A total of 10 Ophthalmology registrars representing 6 South African universities participated in the workshop. 
The Director of the Community Eye Health Institute, Mr Deon Minnies, was honoured by the Ophthalmic Society of South Africa (OSSA) for the role he played in preventing blindness in South Africa. Mr Minnies received the award, the Citizen's Award, during the Grand Dinner of the OSSA Congress which was held at Sun City. 
At the final graduation ceremony of the 2009 academic year of the University of Cape Town (UCT), the first three students being capped were Elvis Chipili, Simon Nantang and Marie Raveloson. The threesome were also the first to graduate with the Postgraduate Diploma in Community Eye Health (PgDCEH). 
Three UCT students are blazing a hitherto-uncharted trail in the important field of community eye health. 
Thirteen students from six countries in Africa completed a 10 week community eye health certificate course on 2 October. This is the fifth annual certificate course that has been run at UCT, and a total of 71 students from 18 African countries have been trained since 2005.