Summary: Focus on identify the leading causes of global blindness, potential treatments and interventions to ameliorate the burden of global blindness and skills to perform a basic eye exam in under-resourced communities’
Suggested Readings: Tanzania Fact Sheet Global Data on Visual Impairments, World Health Organization Woodward, R., Mgaya, E., Mwanansao, C., Peck, R.N., Wu, A. and Sun, G. (2020), Retinopathy in adults with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in Western Tanzania: a cross‐sectional study. Trop Med Int Health, 25: 1214-1225. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13463
Case Study: Weill Cornell Ophthalmology's efforts in Tanzania
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