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Newsletters

Seva publishes Eye Contact, a newsletter about our programs, each spring and fall. Past issues can be viewed and downloaded below. To request an e-mail or printed copy of our next issue, email us at admin@seva.ca.

Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about
- Seva Canada's 30th Anniversary
- Beyond the Darkness, a photo exhibition by Larry Louie
- Gizele Price's epic 12,000 km bike ride from Cairo to Cape Town for Seva
- Chuunu in Nepal who wept on seeing her husband again after eye surgery
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Fall/Winter 2011 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about
- fighting childhood blindness in Malawi
- the vicious cycle of poverty and blindness
- 5-year funding from CIDA
- stories from Tibet and Cambodia
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Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about
- the inauguration of the Kham Eye Centre
- Jo-Ann Labron's report on the eye care programs in Cambodia
- Sherritt International Corporation's support of eye care in Madagascar
- regaining sight and life - one man's story from Cambodia
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Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about...
- our World Sight Day campaign
- a letter from Dr. Salma in Nepal
- Chime and Tashi -- a sight restoration story from Tibet
- donor trips in 2011
- childhood cataract
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Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about...
- the urgent need in Tibet
- how poverty causes blindness - By Dr Ken Bassett
- Susan Erdmann's trip to Western Nepal
- the burden of blindness
- Wavy Gravy and Saint Misbehavin' - Vancouver event May 15th
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Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about...
- Seva Canada's video contest, Her Sight Is Worth It
- Justine Spencer on seeing sight restored in Nepal
- a young girl in Madagascar who got a special pair of glasses
- a major donor who funded three eye camps in Nepal
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Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about...
- where Seva works in Africa
- photos and stories from recent eye camps in Tibet
- Chai Gallery benefit evenings for Seva
- sight restoration stories from Tibet and Cambodia
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Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about...
- our three new countries: Guatemala, Egypt and Cambodia!
- World Sight Day 2008
- Broken glasses and how your gifts help
- Seva's March 2009 donor trip to Nepal
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Visionaries: Seva's new newsletter on legacy gifts
Seva's new forum with advice and information on planned giving.
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Spring/Summer 2008 issue of Seva Canada's newsletter, Eye Contact
Read about...
- a Nepali mother seeing her child for the first time
- Dr. Paul Courtright on the issue of gender and blindness
- the urgent need for Primary Eye Care Centres in the hill districts of Nepal
- Adelle Bernadette's amazing journey to overcome her sight problems and become an artist 
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Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Eye Contact
Read about...
- When the eye patch is removed — Ophthalmologist Dr. Martin Spencer reflects on lives transformed by sight surgery
- Eye care on the roof of the world
- the story of of Jangyong Lhamo in Tibet who lost both her livelihood and her son because she was blind
...and more!
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Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Eye Contact
Read about...
- Mobile Eye Camps — an innovative way to bring eye care services to poor people in remote areas of Tibet and Nepal
- the Critical Impact Award, the Oscar for non-profits
- the story of Deyang, age 75, who was completely blind from cataracts and had her sight restored by Seva
...and more!
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Annual Reports

  Seva Canada Annual Report 2009-2010

 Seva Canada Annual Report 2008-2009

  Seva Canada's 2007-2008 Annual Report

  Seva Canada's 2006-2007 Annual Report

  Seva Canada’s 2005-2006 Annual Report

Publications

1. Blindness prevalence and cataract surgical coverage in Lumbini Zone and Chitwan District of Nepal, British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010.
2. Evaluation of alternate outreach models for cataract services in rural Nepal, BMC Ophthalmology 2010.
3. Gender and Blindness: Initiatives to address inequity  (Aug 2008) Two out of three blind people in the world are women, yet they are the least likely to obtain sight restoring services. This disparity is even more pronounced between girls and boys. Seva Canada has taken explicit leadership in the gender and blindness global initiative. All Seva-led projects work towards achieving gender equity by focusing on overcoming traditional barriers to women's and girls' access.
4. Blindness and eye diseases in Tibet: findings from a randomised, population-based survey, British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2003
   
5. Cataract surgical coverage and outcome in the Tibet Autonomous Region
6. Increasing cataract surgery to meet VISION 2020 targets: experience from two rural programmes in east Africa, British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2005
   
7. Gender and use of cataract surgical services in developing countries 
   
8. Blindness, Poverty and Development, Published by the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness and VISION 2020, this booklet explains how the United Nations Millennium Development Goals are linked to the implementation of the VISION 2020 campaign.
9. Aravind: Partner and Social Science Innovator MIT Press, 2007. An article by Seva co-founders Larry Brilliant and Girija Brilliant describing Seva's partnership with the highly successful Aravind Eye Care System. Published in Innovations, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2007
10. Creating research capacity in developing countries: the role of international collaborative networks of information professionals: a case study of ophthalmic resource centres in Asia and Africa 
11. Acceptance of cataract surgery in a cohort of Tanzanians with operable cataract, Eye 2008
12. The Impact of Visual Impairment on Functional Vision of Children in Rural South India: The Kariapatti Pediatric Eye Evaluation Project, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2004
13. Why are Children Brought Late for Cataract Surgery? Qualitative Findings from Tanzania, Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2008
    
14. Delay in presentation to hospital for surgery for congenital and developmental cataract in Tanzania, British Journal of Ophthalmology 2005
15. Measuring cataract surgical services in children: an example from Tanzania, British Journal of Ophthalmology 2007
16. Causes of vision impairment and assessment of need for low vision services for students of blind schools in Nepal, Kathmandu University Medical Journal 2009
17. Cost-effectiveness of cataract surgery in a public health eye care programme in Nepal, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1996
18. The determinants of trichiasis recurrence differ at one and two years following lid surgery in Vietnam: A community-based intervention study, Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2009
19. An eye on Nepal: we have much to teach, and much to learn, CMAJ, 1988
20. Long-term results of extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber intraocular lens insertion in Nepal, Tran Am Ophthal Society, 1991
21. Epidemiology of blindness in Nepal, Bulletin of the WHO, 1985
22. Cataract surgical outcome and predictors of outcome in Lumbini Zone and Chitwan District of Nepal, Ophthalmic Epidemiol. RP Kandel, Seva Nepal, 2010.
23. Knowledge of major eye diseases and their risk factors. Identifying needs for health education and promotion in Canada. Canadian J of Ophthal. Apr 2006.
24. Resio revisited: visual function assessment and cataract surgery in British Columbia. Bassett KL, Noertjojo K, Nirmalan P, Courtright P. Can J of Ophthal 2005;40:27-33.
25. Gender and Blindness: Eye Disease and the Use of Eye Care Services. Courtright P, Bassett KL. Community Eye Health 2003;16:11-12.
26. Gender and Blindness: A meta-analysis of population based, blindness prevalence data. Abou-Gareeb I, Bassett KL, Lewellen S, Courtright P. Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2001; 8:39-56
27. Gender and blindness. Gender Health. Courtright P, Abou-Gareeb I, Lewellen S, Bassett KL. World Health Organization, Department of Gender and Women's Health, June 2001.
28. Primary eye care in sub-Saharan Africa, Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 2010