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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• More about VISION 2020 and its worldwide effort
  to eliminate preventable blindness,
• visit www.v2020.org today

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• Every 5 seconds one person in our world goes
  blind
• And a child goes blind every minute.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• An estimated 37 million people worldwide are
  blind, and an additional 1 to 2 million will go
  blind each year.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• Without proper interventions, the number of blind
  will increase to 75 million by 2020.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• 90 of the blind live in the poorest parts of the
  developing world.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• 75 of this blindness is treatable and/or
  preventable.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• 124 million people have low vision and millions
  more are functionally blind or visually impaired
  due to uncorrected refractive error.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• Most people take the gift of sight for granted.
  Yet no one values vision more than one who has
  lost it.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
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• No one cherishes sight more than one who has lost
  it and regained it.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• Restorations of sight are among the most
  cost-effective interventions in health care.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
2020

• VISION 2020 aims to eliminate preventable
  blindness by the year 2020
• in order to give everyone in the world the Right
  to Sight.

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Carl Zeiss The first corporate sponsor of VISION
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• Over the next two decades, VISION 2020 will take
  steps to prevent an estimated 100 million people
  from becoming blind.

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Review 05/2007 Publicis

• About Vision 2020

• VISION 2020 The Right to Sight is a global joint
  initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO)
  and the International Agency for the Prevention
  of Blindness (IAPB) with the international
  coalition of professional bodies, eye care
  institutions, non-governmental organizations
  (NGOs) and corporations to eliminate preventable
  blindness by the year 2020.
• VISION 2020 focuses on
• Creating adequate eye-care facilities,
  particularly in under-privileged areas.
• Creating a foundation of well-trained eye-care
  workers.
• Implementing specific programs to control the
  major causes of blindness.

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