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What we achieved in 2020
From starting the year at the Science Museum in London, to diverting our resources to help with the pandemic, it's been a remarkable year for Sightsavers.
Sightsavers' BLINK exhibition scoops multiple awards
One year after it was exhibited, Sightsavers’ innovative photography exhibition BLINK has won another prestigious award.
Researchers: See the people behind the numbers
Neglected tropical disease programmes need to focus on people, not just count disease prevalence, say Sightsavers researchers.
Accelerate: the story of 2020
The Accelerate programme has reached the end of a year like no other. Through a global pandemic, we’ve innovated and adapted our trachoma work to keep on track.
Surveys for advanced trachoma resume in Burkina Faso
More than 20,000 people are to be screened in the first surveys since NTD programmes were put on hold because of COVID-19.
Sightsavers' Joy Shu’aibu named an Inspiring Communicator
Sightsavers’ director for programme operations, Joy Shu’aibu, has been named an Inspiring Communicator for 2020.
UN disability committee achieves historic gender parity milestone
Five women have been elected to the UN CRPD committee, answering Sightsavers’ Equal World campaign call for more diversity and gender equality.
Sightsavers ranked as a top charity by GiveWell for fifth year in a row
The charity evaluator has once again praised Sightsavers’ deworming programmes in Africa for their cost-effectiveness and transparency.
Sightsavers’ director joins Lancet Commission on COVID-19
Sightsavers’ director of neglected tropical diseases, Simon Bush, has joined a new international COVID-19 task force set up by The Lancet.
Sightsavers welcomes new WHO NTD 2030 road map
Sightsavers welcomes WHO’s new NTD 2030 road map, which sets out global targets and milestones for 2030 in order to prevent, control, eliminate and eradicate a diverse set of 20 diseases and disease groups.
