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Poverty blindness is a double disenfranchisement for women
Achieving gender equality in healthcare and education will help to prevent, alleviate and cure the poverty-driven blindness that disproportionately impacts women in poor communities.
According to the World Health Organisation of 39 million blind people in the world, 64% are girls and women. That is more than 25 million women