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The Fight for Sight Beating Blindness Fund has been established to fund research into three areas where addtional research has the potential to make a huge difference: glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

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Situation

It is estimated that there are 1.8 million people living with sight loss in the UK alone. For approximately half of these people, correcting refractive error will aid their vision. For the other half affected by age related, diabetic and inherited eye dieases it is not so straightforward. Either medical treatment in the form of drugs or surgery is required or sadly, for a increasing number of people, no treatment currently exists.

Solution

Fight for Sight currently funds over 50 research projects at a range universities and hospitals across the UK, awarding around £3 million of grants each year. But sadly this means that funding is available for only one in six applications received.

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