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 | INTERNATIONAL GLAUCOMA ASSOCIATION |
Registered Charity No.274681The IGA: - Has over 14,500 members in 60 countries and campaigns for better detection
methods for those at risk
- Supports research into glaucoma its causes detection and treatment
- Conducts surveys on glaucoma detection methods
- Holds meetings for members and anyone interested in glaucoma
- Sends out twice yearly newsletters
- Holds an annual publicity 'FROG WEEK' and other awareness events
- Answers several thousand letters annually offering general factual
information about glaucoma
- Sends out over 100,000 free booklets on glaucoma every year
- Listens to worried and frightened people - counsels and reassures
What is the IGA? The IGA is a registered charity which offers advice and support to glaucoma
sufferers, campaigns for improved glaucoma services for glaucoma patients and
greater public awareness of glaucoma. It also funds considerable clinical
research into the nature and treatment of the disease. The IGA tries to
encourage everyone who is carrying out an eye examination to carry out the
three main tests for chronic glaucoma on all people over the age of 40 or those
over the age of 35 or even earlier when they have relatives who have glaucoma
or when they are of African origin. Sight which has already been lost cannot be
recovered but if glaucoma is detected early, treatment is much more effective
and the chances of retaining good vision are greatly increased. The IGA has Representative Membership of the International Agency for the
Prevention of Blindness. Although mainly active in the UK for geographical
reasons, its aim is to prevent loss of sight from glaucoma throughout the world
by having members world-wide and by co-operation with those with the same
objectives in other countries. At present we have affiliation with similar
societies in Australia, Bangladesh, Finland, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy,
Jersey, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, and Trinidad and Tobago. What does the IGA offer members? As an Association we send out booklets to sufferers so that they can
understand the disease more fully as well as what can be done about it. Advice
of a general factual nature is also given in reply to members' letters of
enquiry or telephone calls, Monday to Friday 9.30 am to 5 pm. We send twice
yearly newsletters to our members and also hold meetings for members, in London
and in other centres, at which glaucoma specialists speak and answer members'
questions. Please note As an Association it is not possible for us to advise on an individual
patient's eye condition or treatment. This must be the role of their own doctor
or eye specialist who has examined the patient and knows the full details of
their particular case. Any comments within this site are, therefore, of a
general nature and must be treated as such.
International Glaucoma Association
King's College Hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS  020-7737 3265
 020-7346 5929
 info@iga.org.uk
 http://www.iga.org.uk/
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