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  • Government invests $16.5m to fight trachoma

    The Foundation has welcomed a $16.5 million Federal Government boost to tackle trachoma in Indigenous Australia. Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon announced today the funding to increase screening and treatment rates for the disease in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia.

  • Bob Carr launches new study into cost and benefits of ending blindness

    Australia’s Foreign Minister, Senator Bob Carr today launched the results of a landmark study into the cost and benefits of ending avoidable blindness throughout the world.

  • United Kingdom: Work with us

    The Fred Hollows Foundation is a successful and well respected International Development Organisation. We are committed to supporting employment opportunities for local people within the countries where we work. Before applying for a position with us, please ensure you have the appropriate eligibility to work. We appreciate the time every applicant takes to express their interest in working at The Foundation and have included some additional information to assist you with your application.

  • National Museum of Australia honours Fred's commitment to improving Indigenous eye health

    The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has launched an exhibit honouring Fred Hollows' commitment to improving the eye health of Indigenous Australians.

  • Global survey to identify 180 million at risk of blinding disease begins in Ethiopia

    The Foundation is leading Australia’s contribution to eliminating the most common infectious cause of blindness in the world, with mapping of the disease trachoma beginning in Ethiopia.

  • November 2012: Quarterly Report

    In this issue: How your support changed Hieu's life, eliminating childhood blindness in Vietnam, and fast tracking trachoma treatment in Africa. > DOWNLOAD Quarterly Report

  • The Foundation fast tracks trachoma treatment

    The Foundation continues to fight the spread of trachoma through a new initiative targeting some of the highest need countries in Africa. Through an annual partnership with UK-based organisation Sightsavers, The Foundation will contribute to The Fast Track Initiative for Trachoma. CEO of The Fred Hollows Foundation, Brian Doolan, says we will contribute over $700,000 to the program this year. "Over 30 years ago Fred Hollows saw first-hand in remote Indigenous communities, how damaging trachoma can be," Doolan said.

  • Eliminating trachoma worldwide

    The Fred Hollows Foundation is playing a critical role in the elimination of trachoma by supporting a global survey to identify where people are living at risk from this blinding disease. The UK government has taken the lead in fast-tracking the elimination of blinding trachoma by providing £10.6 million to a consortium of international NGOs, which includes The Foundation.

  • Advocate to end avoidable blindness

    Will you be part of the worldwide campaign to end avoidable blindness by 2020? Right now a new Action Plan is being developed by The World Health Organization to set out the work needed to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020. The Action Plan needs engagement and input from Member States and non-government organisations across the globe.

  • Children and eye disease

    A blind child in a developing country faces a lifetime of hardship. The World Health Organization has noted that more than half of children who become blind will die within a year or two, often from the diseases which made them blind. Children who are blind suffer profound social, economic and personal hardship, and so do their families.

  • Foundation joins with Sightsavers to tackle trachoma

    The Foundation is extending its reach in Africa through a new partnership with UK based not-for-profit Sightsavers. This new partnership will see The Foundation support initiatives to fast track the elimination of trachoma in Malawi, Cameroon, The Gambia, Zambia, Nigeria and Senegal. The Foundation's CEO Brian Doolan says that the new partnership is an example of two organisations from different sides of the world working together to combat a global problem.

  • Trachoma

    Trachoma is a disease that blinds one person every 15 minutes. But it can be stopped. Our goal is to eliminate Trachoma by 2020. It's an achievable goal and organisations around the world are uniting like never before. Our plan is set. Our resolve is clear. Our promise must be kept - join us in a campaign that will reach the eyes of millions.

  • Anniversary call for action on trachoma

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has marked its 19th anniversary by launching a video on YouTube aimed at inspiring global action on trachoma - a disease which currently blinds one person every 15 minutes.  The short campaign video says that although trachoma is a disease that impacts an estimated 100 million people in around 57 countries, it is preventable and treatable through a strategy known as SAFE. The strategy combines surgical intervention, antibiotics, face cleaning and environmental change to effectively eliminate the disease from entire populations.

  • Gabi Hollows celebrates the birth of land rights

    Gabi Hollows has just returned from the small township of Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory where she celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off.  Gabi was joined by Australians from all over the country who came to mark the milestone at a three-day celebration, the Freedom Festival. "The Wave Hill strikers laid the groundwork for the modern Indigenous land rights movement," says Gabi.

  • Australia

    Professor Fred Hollows worked tirelessly to tackle the crippling health conditions and inequities experienced by Indigenous Australians.

  • Hollows calls on G8 to help eliminate trachoma

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has joined an international campaign by eye health organisations, calling on G8 member nations to commit to the elimination of trachoma by the year 2020. Trachoma is a blinding eye disease present in 57 countries, including Australia. Globally, 1.2 billion people live in trachoma-endemic areas - primarily in the poorest communities in the developing world.

  • Trachoma

    Trachoma is most common in the poorer rural areas of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Australia and the Middle East. In Australia, trachoma is almost exclusively found within the Indigenous population.

  • Anatomy of the eye

    The eye The eye is the organ of sight. It is a small paired organ, each eye being a leathery sphere of about 2.5cm diameter.

  • Surgical boost to cut trachoma in Kenya

    People living with trachoma blindness in one of Kenya’s largest provinces will now have the chance to receive sight-saving eye surgery sooner with the addition of two new specialists to the region. The Foundation is partnering with the Nakuru Eye Unit in north-west Kenya to provide training for eye nurses to upgrade their skills and become trachoma specialists.