| The Obstacle Course: Barriers To Eye Health In Southern Africa.
T. Merrill, Orbis Africa, South Africa.
tammy.merrill@orbis.org.za
Orbis Africa conducted research in two sites in South Africa and Zambia aiming to record and analyze factors impeding the presentation of childhood cataract. In both countries, inadequate infrastructure necessary to cope with eye disease underpins ineffective health care. However, actual factors that prevent quality eye health are significantly more nuanced, often concealed by dynamic social, economic and historical elements. This presentation explores those factors, such as knowledge deficiency within and outside the medical profession and competing medical paradigms. Similarities and differences between the results of the two countries are examined. This presentation describes the research results and how Orbis Africa has used those results to improve programming and advocacy in Africa.
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