Programme National de Lutte contre la Cécité

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Project Name: Programme National de Lutte contre la Cécité
Project Description: PBL Programme
for Blind / Visually Disabled
Location: Cameroon, Yaoundé
Campaign:Vision 2020
Project Information: The National Prevention of Blindness Plan for Cameroon with a population of 14.8 million was signed by the Minister of Health in January 2003. It was then launched on World Sight Day in October 2003 in Yaounde. The Minister of Health, the WHO and the NGDOs held a stakeholders implementation conference in January 2004, where a plan of action for the mobilization of funding was developed.

Related Projects in Cameroon

by Country: Cameroon
by Campaign: Vision 2020
by Field of Work: Projects for People with Visual Impairment
by Clinical Condition: Cataract Trachoma River Blindness Glaucoma
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Picture copyright: Reuters/Victor Ruiz Caballero, courtesy www.alertnet.org
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