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b'London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News: \\n \\nAvoiding Blindness: Swaziland \\u2018VISION 2020 Links\\u2019 Project Points the Way\\n\\nSWAZILAND\\u2014 Globally, eighty per cent of all blindness is from \\u2018avoidable\\u2019 causes, according to researchers working with the \\u201cVISION 2020 Links\\u201d programme, which brings together institutions in the UK with hospitals in the developing world, to promote more effective ways of preventing those at risk from going blind. Abi Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses a new project linking professional support staff at the School with the eye clinic team at the Good Shepherd Hospital in Swaziland, and emphasises good organisation of health service systems as one of the most important ways of improving eye health.'