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Prevent Blindness America is working hard to secure FY 2010 appropriations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vision Health Initiative, the National Institutes of Health and the National Eye Institute. An estimated 80 million Americans have a potentially blinding eye disease, 3 million have low vision, 1.1 million are legally blind, and 200,000 are more severely visually impaired. While vision impairment and blindness are among the most feared disabilities, effective public health initiatives can dramatically decrease these numbers. You can be a voice for vision. House and Senate Appropriations Committees have begun work on FY 2010 appropriations.
Click here to send a letter to your Senators and Representative and support funding for sight-saving programs.
