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Welcome to ATconnect!

ATconnect is a curated digital platform, developed by ATscale, the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology, designed to connect the assistive technology community through two components: a repository of high-quality resources and a global mapping of the programmes related to assistive technology.

Our mission is to empower assistive technology users, providers, policymakers, educators, researchers, and advocates worldwide through this central, accessible platform filled with tools and knowledge. Together, we foster collaboration, innovation, and inclusion, ensuring that everyone, everywhere, can access the assistive technology they need.

We invite you to share your own resources, or programme information for inclusion, helping the ATconnect to grow as a living, global repository.

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The national primary eye care trining manual

Year of Publication: 2020

Education or training

The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance in the design, implementation and evaluation of a course that aims to build and strengthen the capacity of health personnel to manage eye patients at primary-level health facilities in Nigeria. The course falls within the remit of continuous professional development in its broadest sense. Its content focuses on simple evidence-based practice that can be easily carried out in primary-level health facilities all over Africa. This manual is intended for use by course directors and facilitators. Its intended audience includes all persons who wish to commission, support or offer a course serving the above aims, including pre-service training. This manual sets out the requisite steps for the preparation and organization of such a course.

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National school eye health guidelines

Year of Publication: 2020

Guide

This guideline for School Eye Health programmes is timely due to its stepwise approach to setting up at national and sub-national levels. A three-pronged approach guides implementation and includes eye health instructions, eye health services and a healthy environment. This is achieved by institutionalising activities that maintain eye health in the learning environments, prevent blinding conditions, identify abnormalities as well as referrals to health facilities for treatment with appropriate technology and rehabilitation

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Uganda: potential cost of a national school eye health program

Year of Publication: 2023

Evidence and data

This brief provides tentative estimates for the cost of a national school eye health program in Uganda based on unit cost estimates in Uganda and other countries.

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Spectacle compliance among school children in Malawi, Nigeria and Pakistan

Year of Publication: 2019

Evidence and data

The document presents a study on spectacle compliance among school children in Malawi, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The study was commissioned by the World Bank and aimed to assess the prevalence of refractive errors and spectacle compliance among school-going children in these countries.

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WHO guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being, 2022 revision: executive summary

Year of Publication: 2022

Guide

WHO recommends self-care interventions, including medical and assisitve products for every country and economic setting as critical components on the path to reaching universal health coverage (UHC), promoting health, keeping the world safe and serving the vulnerable.

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Self-care competency framework: volume 1: global competency standards for health and care workers to support people’s self-care

Year of Publication: 2023

Standard or framework

The document presents the Self-care competency framework, a set of global competency standards for health and care workers to support people's self-care, including the providion of self care products

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