{"id":1124,"date":"2026-10-06T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:25:06","slug":"primary-eye-care-training-manual-by-paho-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/publications\/primary-eye-care-training-manual-by-paho-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Eye Care Training Manual by PAHO 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" open><summary>This manual, originally developed by PAHO-WHO in 2003 and updated by CCB-Eye Care Caribbean for use across the region, is a practical training guide that equips primary health care workers to deliver basic eye care in their communities. Organized into six modules, it teaches workers how to screen vision using a Snellen-style chart, recognize common eye conditions such as conjunctivitis, injuries, cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and pterygium, and provide simple treatments like applying ointment or eye shields and removing foreign bodies. It also covers when and how to refer serious cases to an ophthalmologist or eye clinic, how to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum in newborns, and how to educate communities about hygiene, nutrition, immunization, and injury prevention to avoid needless vision loss. Each module breaks tasks into the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and learning experiences needed to perform them, and is supported by curated audiovisual resources, making it a ready-to-use tool for strengthening eye health services and preventing blindness across the Caribbean.<\/summary><div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRIMARY-EYE-CARE-TRAINING-MANUAL-BY-PAHO-FOR-CCB-2026-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"height:800px;\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"800\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">PRIMARY-EYE-CARE-TRAINING-MANUAL-BY-PAHO-FOR-CCB-2026-1<\/a><\/div><\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,138,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-main","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}