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Origins of an Autonomous Global Network to Eradicate Blindness

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Marginalized actors began to create an autonomous global network that would challenge the incumbent regime. After the WHO eradicated smallpox, many Western and South Asian medical professionals hoped to eradicate avoidable blindness. Public health, ophthalmology, and other professionals from India, Nepal, Israel, the UK, the USA, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Australia formed strong personal and professional links. They began an autonomous global network with specific advocacy goals and a cognitive rule to eradicate and control blindness that guided their future efforts. Their relationships informed their creation of: a new multilateral nonprofit, non-governmental organization called the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, and the WHO Prevention of Blindness program. They utilized their own interpretations of Dr. Patricia E. Bath’s concept of community ophthalmology to create plans for eye health care in rural areas of the global south.

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