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'The goal is to prevent diabetic blindness now,' he began. The strategy is the provision of retinal screening, improved diabetic care, improved treatment uptake and new treatments for diabetes and diabetic retinopathy. A comparison of retinopathy levels between Birmingham and the Leopard Programme in Addis Ababa Ethiopia showed significantly higher levels of retinopathy, especially sight threatening retinopathy (referral rates are 5 to 9 per cent in Birmingham, 51 per cent with 20 per cent registerable as blind in Addis Ababa) indicating that proper management of diabetes and retinopathy has a huge impact on reducing the risk of progression to blindness.
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