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What is PEP ? |
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PEP
is developing the educational materials and
programs needed to provide continuing education
to practitioners and educators throughout
the world, starting in Asia. To date PEP has
reached 2,848 practitioners and 185 educators
in 10 countries in Asia: India, China, Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Australia, Thailand, Japan. One of the most
important innovations of this Program is that
it encompasses both practitioners and educators:
- Practitioner Presbyopia
Education Program (PPEP) : Developing the
skills of practitioners has an immediate and
direct effect on the eyecare they provide.
- Educator Presbyopia
Education Program (EPEP) : Supplementing the
knowledge, skills and materials of educators
has an ongoing effect on all the future practitioners
they teach.
This is a unique program which is creating
well-trained practitioners able to provide
complete eyecare to their communities, and
educators with the latest and best teaching
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What is ICEE ? |
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International Centre for Eyecare Education
aims to eliminate avoidable blindness and
low vision due to uncorrected refractive error.
ICEE is developing self-sustaining systems
to deliver good quality, affordable and readily
available vision care services and spectacles
to all those in need. Over ten percent of
the world’s blind people (6 million) and over
half of those with impaired vision (100 million)
could be "cured" simply with spectacles. |
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ICEE activities and programs
are aimed at the delivery and development of:
- Trained eyecare personnel, to provide eyecare
services to communities in need.
- Affordable spectacles, which are not available
in many parts of the world. |
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ICEE
is a non-profit, non-government collaborative
organisation which is a Taskforce Member of
Vision 2020: The Right to Sight - the Global
Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness
and Low Vision by the Year 2020, established
by an alliance of the World Health Organisation,
the International Agency for the Prevention
of Blindness, and the Partnership Committee
of the International Non-Government Development
Organisations. |
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ICEE Participants:
- Cooperative Research Centre
for Eye Research and Technology, Sydney,
Australia.
- LV Prasad Eye Institute,
Hyderabad, India.
- Centre for Contact Lens
Research, School of Optometry, University of
Waterloo, Canada.
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