Abstract
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness is having its 9 th General Assembly in India. It gives me great pleasure to edit a special issue of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology for this occasion. India was the first country to launch a National Program for the Control of Blindness, in 1976. While public health approaches to communicable diseases and epidemics were applied more than 100 years ago, they have been relatively recently used in combating blindness and disability.
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