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International Glaucoma Association

Woodcote House
15 Highpoint Business Village
Henwood
Ashford
Kent
TN24 8DH

Tel: 01233 64 81 70
Fax: 01233 64 81 79
Web: www.glaucoma-association.com
Best time to telephone: 9.30am - 5.00pm, Monday - Friday

Glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness with one in fifty (1:50) people over 40 suffering from the condition. The International Glaucoma Association (IGA) offers advice and support by sending free patient literature and responding to hundreds of concerns and queries from sufferers 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 those who are particularly at risk because they have relatives with this condition.

As an Association, the IGA sends out information booklets to sufferers because when they properly understand the disease they can co-operate much better in its treatment. The IGA are also happy to give information of a general nature about glaucoma by letter or telephone. The IGA has over 7,000 members and friends who each receive quarterly newsletters and invitations to meetings which are held all over the UK.

Checked: 11 Dec 2007








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PS - Health and Poverty

Perhaps the biggest cause of ill health in the world is poverty. Help to Make Poverty History. For example, why not lend some of your money to disadvantaged communities to enable them to trade their way out of poverty through schemes such as Shared Interest.

See also MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY North East for details and links to campaigns against poverty.

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