Investing in Vision - Fred Hollows Foundation report

Drawing on previous work that estimated the global cost of eliminating avoidable blindness (The Price of Sight), as well as the global economic benefits (The Value of Sight), the Investing in Vision report provides compelling evidence of the cost-effectiveness of additional investments designed to strengthen eye health systems in developing countries.  

This is the final report in the series commissioned by The Fred Hollows Foundation to calculate the costs and benefits of achieving the VISION 2020 goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020.   Key findings include the fact that in developing countries, the economic benefits of eliminating avoidable blindness and visual impairment outweigh the costs by a factor of 4 to 1.