International Organizations
- International Council of Ophthalmology
- World Council of Optometry. WCO represents optometrists in 40 countries.
- International Orthoptic Association. IOA represents orthoptists in 20 countries.
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) is an international optometric organization representing 250,000 optometrists from 80 member organizations in 45 countries and which is registered in England and Wales. It is also the only such organization that maintains official relations with the World Health Organization and it is one of the members of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
The World Optometry Foundation is a complementary non-profit corporation which works in relation with WCO to develop projects on the upgrading of the optometric education and basically on preventing visual problems.
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness was established in 1975. The first large project in which this organization was involved is the WHO Program known as the VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. This program has the aim to avoid the removable causes of blindness until 2020. The headquarters are in United Kingdom, but the organization has offices widely spread around the world, in big cities of all the continents.
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