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AAA Humanitarian Foundation Sponsors World Glaucoma Week 2017

AAA Humanitarian Foundation Sponsors World Glaucoma Week 2017

World Glaucoma Week is an initiative that puts a spotlight on glaucoma as the leading cause of preventable irreversible blindness worldwide. It is celebrated globally every year during the month of March to raise health awareness of glaucoma disease and its symptoms and risks as the second cause of blindness worldwide.

In line with the “Vision 2020: Right to Sight” initiative which aims to reduce preventable blindness by 2020, Abdulaziz Ahmad Abdulaziz Humanitarian Foundation was keen on supporting the activities of World Glaucoma Week 2017 as an official sponsor, which were held in various regions across the Kingdom to stimulate awareness and promote the prompt diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. It was organized by the Saudi Ophthalmological Society, in cooperation with the General Directorate of Health Affairs in Riyadh, the Saudi Glaucoma Group, and the Ophthalmology Fellowship physicians in Riyadh.