Health
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Meet Dr Levi Kandeke: The only child eye doctor in Burundi
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: “The chance of my life is to be born and raised in one of the poorest countries in the world and go to graduate school in one of the richest… It creates for me... -
Remembering Fred Hollows
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: On May 20, 1976, Fred Hollows and teams of health workers set out on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program with the aim to eliminate trachoma and other eye conditions in rural and... -
Record results at 2015 Foundation AGM
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: Twenty-five years after Fred Hollows was named Australian of the Year, The Fred Hollows Foundation will announce another year of record results at its Annual General Meeting in Sydney tonight. Despite ongoing cuts to... -
See a Fred Moment to believe it
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: Watch Fred Hollows and Dr Sanduk Ruit exchange these excited words, in awe of the transformation they are witnessing. Fred Hollows knew the thrill and joy of freeing someone from avoidable blindness. It simply... -
New global trachoma data reveals the end is in sight
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: An ambitious global mapping project has revealed it would cost about US$1 billion to eliminate blinding trachoma by 2020, of which US$200-300 million has already been committed, an international conference in Sydney will be... -
Sightsavers hosts side event at Conference of States Parties
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: Sightsavers is co-hosting a side event, Fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals through inclusive budgeting, on Tuesday 14 June at the 9th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The... -
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: The results of the election of nine new members to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held in New York on Tuesday 14 June, have been announced. Ghanaian nominee... -
What’s the Conference of States Parties all about?
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: As well as being the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2016 is also the inaugural year of the 2030 Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),... -
Transgender rights critical for the health of 25 million transgender people worldwide
Jun 18, 2016News Hour: Public health efforts fail to capture even most basic information about transgender health, but social, legal context in which many transgender people live has led to high rates of HIV, depression. 2015 was an...
