Abstract
The unprecedented partnership for onchocerciasis control that followed Merck's decision to donate Mectizan has inspired the formation of a global initiative for the elimination of all avoidable blindness by the year 2020. 'Vision 2020, the Right to Sight', jointly co-ordinated by the World Health Organization's Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Deafness and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, was launched in 1999. This initiative's three pillars are disease control, human resource development, and infrastructure development. Vision 2020's achievements to date include the growth of the partnership, to include more than 60 member organizations, the revitalization of prevention activities, the completion of Vision-2020 plans in 40% of all countries and a reduction not only of blindness caused by onchocerciasis but also of blindness caused by trachoma. Cataract remains the leading cause of avoidable blindness.
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