Twelve ophthalmology leaders have signed a public letter to the U.K. government calling for a national plan to address sight loss, according to a press release from Fight for Sight.
The country currently invests 1% of national research funding in eye research, while 20% of people in the U.K. will experience serious sight loss or blindness in their lifetime, with that number expected to rise dramatically by 2050. Fight for Sight, a nonprofit organization focused on curbing sight loss through research, calls this the “1 to 20” funding gap.
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