Welcome to AFROPHTHA, where we are committed to transforming eye health across Africa. Since our founding in 2023, our mission has been clear—to ensure access to quality eye care for all by building strong networks among healthcare professionals, institutions, and stakeholders.
Through training, advocacy, research, and accessibility, we are empowering eye care professionals, enhancing patient outcomes, and driving sustainable change. With a deep passion for preventing blindness, I have dedicated my career to advancing impactful programs, high-level advocacy, and pioneering research.
At AFROPHTHA, we believe that collaboration as the key to a future where no one suffers from preventable blindness. Join us in making this vision a reality. Together, we can create a world where quality eye care knows no boundaries.
CEO & FOUNDER
Bernard Agbor
AFRICA OPHTALMOLOGY NETWORK
FOUNDATION
We strive to:
Equip healthcare workers with targeted training.
Deliver hospital-based and collaborative training programs.
Expand access to high-quality eye care.
Develop global eye care networks.
Secure funding for research, training, and public health initiatives.
At AFROPHTHA, we are committed to:
Training Excellence – Empowering eye health professionals through specialized education.
Accessibility – Ensuring quality eye care reaches all populations.
Advocacy & Awareness – Driving policy changes and influencing behaviors in eye health.
Research & Innovation – Advancing eye care through impactful studies.
Collaboration – Building strong networks among healthcare providers, organizations, and industries.
Our Activities
Training
AFROPHTHA’s Competency-Based Approach (CPA) is a structured, hospital-based training program designed to strengthen the capacity of surgeons, OT assistants, and all key players in the eye care supply chain
Community Eye Heatlh
With the aim of promoting quality but affordable care in the vast majority of our populations, our community eye health programs are well designed to provide adequate solutions to local needs
Advocacy and fundraising
Our team, through our networks of governmental and non-governmental organizations, learned societies as well as people of goodwill, is aimed at mobilizing and raising funds ...
Research
Through our various interventions in the implementation of our missions, AFROPHTHA with its partners, promotes the collection of reliable data to improve research and scientific development in Africa.
HOSPITAL BASED
TRAINING PROGRAM
Through this training program, our experts equip medical and surgical teams as well as all the different players in the supply chain on patient care. This has the advantage of training staff in their natural environment to close up their challenges. The training programs are well-tailored to meet the needs of the learners and the user hospital in the following areas:
- Cataract surgery using Phacoemulsifications
- Small incision cataract surgery
- Glaucoma surgery
- Ocular surface surgery
- Maintenance of opthalmic equipments
- Refraction
- Eye Imaging
- YAG and Iridotomy lasers
and more
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