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Tel (SightLine): 01233 64 81 70
Tel: 01233 64 81 64
Fax: 01233 64 81 79
Web: www.glaucoma-association.com

Formed in 1974, the International Glaucoma Association (IGA) is the charity for people with glaucoma.

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness with one in fifty (1:50) people over 40 developing this condition. The IGA offers advice and support by sending free patient literature and responding to hundreds of concerns and queries every week. The IGA also creates greater public awareness of glaucoma and campaigns for improved glaucoma services. Furthermore it supports considerable clinical research into the nature and treatment of the disease. The IGA encourages early screening for glaucoma, especially for those who are at increased risk which includes people aged over 40, those with a family history of glaucoma, people of African-Caribbean origin and people with diabetes.

As an Association, the IGA sends out information booklets to people with glaucoma in order to ensure that they understand the disease properly and can co-operate with their treatment much better. The IGA are also happy to give information of a general nature about glaucoma by letter or telephone. The IGA has over 5,500 members and friends who each receive quarterly newsletters and invitations to meetings which are held all over the UK.