Cataract and “Vision 2020—the right to sight” initiative

In 1999 the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness announced a joint programme to eliminate unnecessary blindness. The programme is called “Vision 2020—the right to sight”.1 Key to this initiative is the provision of sufficient, successful, and sustainable cataract services for all communities. The questions that therefore arise include: what is a sufficient; what is a successful; and what is a...