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news Ethiopia

Vision is Power: Restoring Vision for Over 1,500 Patients in Ethiopia

Last month, HCP’s Ethiopian team helped local providers perform over 1,500 sight-restoring cataract surgeries at Boru Meda Hospital over the course of five days. Two of the patients speak to...
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profiles Ghana

Profile: Dr. Boateng Wiafe

Dr. Boateng Wiafe, a senior Ghanaian ophthalmologist, has helped advise HCP since 2012 on reducing rates of unnecessary blindness in Ghana. Dr. Wiafe completed his medical and ophthalmology training in...
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Restore Sight x 2 - Your Gift DOUBLED Today!

Giving Tuesday is November 29th, but you can change someone’s life today!
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videos Ethiopia

Short film highlights impact of sight restoration

In Bisidimo, Ethiopia earlier this year, HCP Cureblindness' Ethiopian team helped local partners provide hundreds of people with sight-restoring cataract surgeries. Patients describe their journeys of living in darkness and...
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news Ethiopia

Over 2,600 sight-restoring surgeries in Ethiopia during October

HCP’s Ethiopian team helped local partners provide over 2,600 sight-restoring surgeries at four different cataract outreach events throughout October. The surgical events took place in Wolaita Sodo, Bisidimo, Bahir Dar...
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Celebrations around the globe mark World Sight Day

Every year on the second Thursday in October, the global eye care community comes together to mark World Sight Day - a special day to focus global attention on blindness...
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profiles Ghana

Thomas Badu

During a recent outreach in Koforidua, Ghana, HCP’s partner, the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua, helped treat Thomas Badu and provide care for his vision loss. Badu, a 75-year-old from...
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Partnership delivers increased care to Tanzania

HCP is partnering with Helen Keller Intl this year in Tanzania. The collaboration, which pairs Helen Keller’s expertise in Trachomatous Trichiasis (TT) care and HCP’s in cataract care, will ensure...
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Convening partners to improve patient care

HCP recently hosted its first regional partners workshop in Malawi bringing together over 40 participants from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan and the US.
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