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| New SightLife California Director comes with record of eye banking innovation, organizational achievement | PDF 33.2 KB |
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| SightLife and Eye Bank of Ethiopia Partner to Fight Corneal Blindness | PDF 18.9 KB |
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| SightLife/AMO upgrade speed/capabilities of Femtosecond Laser System | PDF 25.8 KB |
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| North Carolina Eye Bank partners with SightLife to sponsor eye bank in India | PDF 58.4 KB |
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| US firm to help eliminate corneal blindness by 2025 coverage in The Hindu, India's national newspaper |
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Blindness Kills
Facts about a highly-curable disease:
- 10 million blind people in the world suffer today from curable corneal blindness.
- Fifty percent of the more than 1 million blind children living in developing countries right now will die within one to two years.
- Treatments to prevent and cure blindness are among the least expensive and most successful of all health interventions.
- We are working now to establish sight-restoring transplant centers in developing nations.
About SightLife
Working with surgeons in over 30 countries, SightLife restores sight to more than 20 men, women, and children each day. This is accomplished through eye banking, which is the recovery and placement of eye tissue used in cornea transplants. SightLife’s mission is to eliminate cornea blindness, and we are working to achieve that mission by creating partner eye banks in the developing countries, where 90% of the 10 million people suffering from curable cornea blindness live.
SightLife’s primary service regions in the United States are Washington state, Northern Idaho, Montana, California’s San Joaquin Valley, and Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. We meet 100% of the need for transplant tissue in these regions with no waiting list. We also help to fill shortages in other parts of the nation.
