Vitamin 'A' Deficiency and Blindness Prevention

The nature of xerophthalmia and programmes designed to eradicate it are the subjects of the first report to be published by the two year-old blindness prevention programme of the American Foundation for Overseas Blind (AFOB). The report entitled "Vitamin A Deficiency and Blindness Prevention", edited by Vivian Beyda, AFOB blindness prevention specialist, has emerged from two Symposia jointly sponsored by the Nutrition Foundation and the AFOB.