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Health Programs that Focus on Hearing, Diabetes and More

Lions are known as "knights of the blind," focusing on programs and projects that serve the blind or visually impaired – or aim to eliminate preventable and reversible blindness. But we also participate in other health programs and projects.

  • Lions support local and large-scale efforts to control and prevent diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of vision loss in adults of working age in industrialized countries.
  • And around the world, many Lions service projects have an impact on health. For example, Lions in the United Kingdom funded the first fully equipped ambulance for newborns in Bosnia and Herzegovina. And Lions in the Cayman Islands have worked to increase awareness and early detection of breast cancer.




BY THE NUMBERS

10,000,000

Ten million Ethiopians at risk of trachoma received doses of the sight-saving drug azithromycin during a week-long distribution program supported by LCIF, Lions of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government, Pfizer Inc., The Carter Center and other organizations.

LIONS IN ACTION

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