Eye-care in Zambia
100,000 blind
One in 40 people are blind in Zambia and one in six children suffer from trachoma, a highly infectious eye disease.
With many of the population living along the railway lines, this has resulted in areas of a high concentration of people.
Most of Zambia’s blindness is down to poor living conditions and malnutrition. Delivering quality health-care to its large population is a current challenge.
Our Projects
Links Programme, Zambia
With support from Seeing is Believing, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka & Brighton University...Livingstone to Lusaka Urban Comprehensive Eye Care Project
As one of Africa's poorest countries, Zambia's public health services in urban slums are understaffed...