Is myopia a treatable disease in your country if you can afford it?

Most rural areas have no access to health care, making residents susceptible to otherwise treatable diseases.

More than a million people, most of them children, die every year from malaria, a treatable disease.

One in five children die before the age of 5 here, mostly from treatable and preventable diseases.

Every year nearly 10 million children under age five die, mostly from preventable and treatable diseases.

Yet young people are still suffocating because of an entirely treatable disease.

"Now we know that it's a treatable disease and that's supported by solid science."

We remember the millions more who died from this entirely preventable and treatable disease.

We frequently test for rare but serious and treatable diseases, because the cost of missing a diagnosis is simply too great.

Why leave out such a pervasive yet treatable disease?