Prevalence and Causes of Blindness and Visual Impairment Among Nigerian Children: A Systematic Review.

Background: Low/middle-income countries have the highest burden of blindeness and visual impairment, which directly affects the children and indirectly affects their community. Furthermore, the number of blind years suffered by children with low vision or blindness creates a self-perpetuating ripple effect on their development, health and the socio-economic development of their communities. This systematic review aims to interrogate the existing evidence on the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment in Nigerian children to provide evidence to drive health policy.

Factors limiting glaucoma care among glaucoma patients in Nigeria: A scoping review.

Glaucoma currently accounts for 11% of irreversible visual loss worldwide. Due to many factors, patients do not access the glaucoma care pathway and present late with poor vision, while many are undiagnosed or untreated. These factors may be personal-level dispositions or Institutional-level dispositions, limiting the awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of glaucoma or adherence to medications or follow-up clinic visits.