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Abbreviations and Acronyms in International Ophthalmology

Abbreviations and Acronyms in International Ophthalmology

ICO: International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) founded in 1927 in Scheveningen, Holland

IFOS: International Federation of Ophthalmologic Societies (IFOS) founded in 1933 in Madrid, Spain

IAPB: International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), founded in 1972.

VISION 2020: The Right to Sight is a joint effort by World Health Organization (WHO), IAPB, ICO and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), announced in February 1999 in Geneva, Switzerland.

AACO: Afro Asian Congress of Ophthalmology

AOI: Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, founded in 1965

APAO: Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology

EBO: European Board of Ophthalmology, founded 1972 in London

EUPO: European University Professors of Ophthalmology, founded 1988

EVER: European Association for Vision and Eye Research founded in Palma in 1998 as a fusion of the Association for Eye Research (AER) and European Community of Ophthalmic Research Association (ECORA)

ICO: International Congress of Ophthalmology (ICO) starting in 1857 (see list of past Congresses)

PAACO: Pan Arab African Council of Ophthalmology

PAAO: Pan American Association of Ophthalmology

NGO: Non-Government Organizations, such as:

CBM: Christoffel Blinden Mission

HKL: Helen Keller International

IALC: International Association of Lions Clubs

RI: Rotary International

SS: Sight Savers

SOE: Societas Ophthalmologica Europea, founded 1960

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Also see:

• ICO Database of Societies and Residencies
  
  
• Web Sites of IFOS and National Societies
  
  
• Web Sites of Supranational and International Societies
  
  
• Web Sites of Other National, Regional and Local Societies