{"id":38412,"date":"2026-11-10T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ullsdelmon.org\/?post_type=noticies&#038;p=38412"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:50:56","slug":"new-updated-data-to-prevent-avoidable-blindness-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"noticies","link":"https:\/\/www.ullsdelmon.org\/en\/news\/new-updated-data-to-prevent-avoidable-blindness-in-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"New updated data to prevent avoidable blindness in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">As part of World Sight Day, celebrated on 8 October, the <strong>presentation of the results of the RAAB study (Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness)<\/strong> took place in La Paz, led by the Ministry of Health and Sports with the collaboration of the Eyes of the world Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined 2,273 people aged over 50 in La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro and Tarija to assess the state of eye health in the country, providing revealing data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>90%<\/strong> of vision loss cases can be prevented or treated.<\/li>\n<li>Cataracts account for <strong>55.3%<\/strong> of cases of avoidable blindness and <strong>67.9%<\/strong> of severe visual impairment.<\/li>\n<li>Uncorrected refractive errors are the cause of <strong>54.3%<\/strong> of cases of moderate visual impairment and <strong>78.7%<\/strong> of cases of mild visual impairment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The research was led by the Ministry, through its Eye Health Unit, by bringing together public and private institutions, cooperation organisations, communities and researchers. Participants included the National Institute of Ophthalmology, the Bolivian Institute for Blindness, the Bolivian Society of Ophthalmology, the Departmental Health Services, Buena Visi\u00f3n Internacional (GoodVision), Moya Vision, Fundassil, Fundaci\u00f3n Visi\u00f3n and, as coordinating organisations, PAHO\/WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). The research team included Dr Jo\u00e3o M. Furtado as Principal Investigator, Dr Adalid Ramos Valencia as the researcher in Bolivia and Dr Ricardo Pedro Casaroli Marano as the non-resident Co-Investigator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study represents much more than the generation of new data on blindness and visual impairment in Bolivia. It represents the country\u2019s effort to <strong>have up-to-date, scientifically robust information that allows us to better support the development of public policies<\/strong>,\u201d highlighted Patricia T\u00e1rraga, Eyes of the world&#8217;s Coordinator in Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>Using these findings, the Ministry of Health and Sports is beginning the development of a new National Eye Health Plan focused on <strong>reducing barriers to strengthen primary eye care<\/strong> and bringing specialised services closer to rural and the country\u2019s most vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n<p>This study was made possible thanks to the collaboration of Lions Club (SightFirst), CBM Global, Banco Nacional de Bolivia, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the Government of Navarre, FOAL, Repsol Bolivia and Good Vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38413,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-38412","noticies","type-noticies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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