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With global partners, nonprofit uses innovative technology to help restore sight HelpMeSee, which uses simulation-based training to help eradicate cataract blindness, has reached a milestone with the training of its 1,000th cataract specialist in 2022. The global...

HelpMeSee has announced that Dan Thorpe has joined the organization as chief of marketing and development. In this role, Thorpe will lead worldwide marketing and fundraising operations for the nonprofit, which uses simulation-based training to train cataract specialists to eradicate cataract blindness.

In Madagascar, cataracts are the cause of a mounting public health crisis, as more than two hundred thousand people are blind or visually impaired, in a nation of 28 million. While many cases of cataract blindness can be resolved through cataract surgery, the...

Cataract continues to be the world’s leading cause of Blindness in 2021, with 100 million visually impaired people. Of those, 17 million are bilaterally blind, and 83 million have moderate to severe vision loss. With cataract surgery, those blind and severely visually...

On June 10, 2020, Dr. Van Lansingh, HelpMeSee Chief Medical Officer, participated in a United Nations (UN) High-Level Political Forum virtual panel entitled "Vision for Everyone as a Catalyst for the Decade of Action." The meeting was convened by the Friends of Vision...