Organization:AMD Alliance International
AMD Alliance International is a non-profit coalition of the world’s leading vision, seniors and research organizations working to raise awareness of age-related macular degeneration, understanding of available options for prevention, early detection, treatment, rehabilitation and support services. It is the only international organization in the world that concentrates exclusively on age related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in the developed world.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
AMD is an eye condition that causes loss of central vision, leaving only peripheral, or side, vision intact. AMD is the leading cause of visual impairment for people over 50 in the Western world.
Types & Detection
Macular degeneration is often related to aging, thus the name age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD).
The two most common forms of AMD are dry and wet.
Dry AMD
This more common form, causes varying degrees of sight loss and is identified by the collection of yellow, fatty deposits called drusen in the macula the central part of the retina responsible for clear central vision.
Wet AMD
Occurs less often (10-15 percent of cases), but the chance for severe sight loss is much greater. It is characterized by development of abnormal, leaky blood vessels in the macula. Scar tissue may form causing irreversible blind spots and in many cases leads to legal blindness.
AMD Alliance International Member Organizations
- Fundación Oftalmológica Hugo Nano
- Macular Degeneration Foundation Australia
- Retina Australia
- Vision Australia Foundation
Austria
- EURAG: European Federation of Older Persons
Belgium
- Belgian Organization for the Prevention of Blindness
- Retina Brasil
- CNIB
- Canadian Association of Optometrists
- Canadian Ophthalmological Society
- The Foundation Fighting Blindness-Canada
- International Federation on Ageing
- National Coalition on Vision Health
- Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired
- Pro Retina Deutschland e.V.
- Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands
- DOG
- Hong Kong Society for the Blind
- Retina Hong Kong
- LV Prasad Eye Institute
- National Society for the Prevention of Blindness - India
Ireland
- Fighting Blindness Ireland
- ESHEL: The Association for the Planning and
- International Federation on Ageing
- NAMAG – Association of AMD Patients in Israel
Italy
- International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness - Italian Branch
- Retina Italia Onlus
- Societá Italiana Retina
Netherlands
- Macula Degeneratie Vereniging
- Retina New Zealand
- The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
- Polish Association of the Blind
- Retina South Africa
- Organización Nacional De Ciegos Españoles (ONCE)
- Spanish Vitreous and Retina Society
- Retina International
- Retina Suisse
Tunisia
- Nadi al Bassar, African Centre for Sight and Visual Sciences
- Royal National Institute of Blind People
- Age Concern England
- Fight for Sight
- Macular Disease Society
- Wales Council for the Blind
- Dr. Bob Thompson, Honorary Life Chair
- Alliance for Aging Research
- American Optometric Association
- American Optometric Association-Low Vision Section
- American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses
- The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc.
- International Association for Audio Information Services
- Lighthouse International
- The Association for Macular Diseases
- Lions Clubs International
- Macular Degeneration Partnership
- Macular Degeneration Support (MD Support)
- Prevent Blindness America
- Hadley School for the Blind
- The Seniors Coalition
- Eye Care America
References
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/maculardegeneration.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080606095302/http://www.cnib.ca/en/news/archive/amd-news-092006.aspx
https://web.archive.org/web/20080916102223/http://www.nei.nih.gov/strategicplanning/np_part.asp
- Living Well With Macular Degeneration: Dr. Bruce Rosental and Kate Kelly. ISBN:0-451-20264-3
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Daniel L. Robert. ISBN:1-56924-286-0
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