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Women and Gender Issues Articles
Seva's Fund for Women and Girls
The Fund for Women and Girls supports a variety of innovative programs and partnerships that are improving access to eye care for women and girls around the globe.
Seva at Clinton Global Initiative
Seva was one of only 25 global health organizations invited to attend the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, where we launched our So One Million Eyes See Again campaign.
Gender and Sustainability: Seva Influences the International Eye Care Agenda
Thanks to leadership from Seva's Dr. Suzanne Gilbert, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) has formed new working groups to take up two key issues in the Vision 2020 campaign to prevent blindness — gender and sustainability.
Seva's Vision for Gender Equality in Eye Care
Every five seconds a person goes blind somewhere around the world, and every minute a child goes blind. Even more disturbing is the fact that two out of three people who are blind are women and girls; most of them living in areas of developing countries where they have limited and unequal access to sight restoring services.
