Prevention of blindness and deafness
The WHO prevention of blindness and deafness team (PBD) works
with Member States through WHO regional offices to develop
strategies for prevention and control of blindness, deafness and
hearing impairment. Team members, together with our many partners in
the field, including NGOs and WHO collaborating centres, work with
country-based teams to support the implementation of strategies
developed. In addition, to facilitate ongoing strategic planning,
the PBD team co-ordinates the collection and dissemination at
national, regional, and global levels of data that reflect the
burden of visual and hearing impairment and the implementation of
programme strategies.
The principal areas of work of the prevention of blindness and
deafness team (PBD) are:
