AVEH African Vision and Eye Health 2413-3183 2410-1516 AOSIS AVEH-76-410 10.4102/aveh.v76i1.410 Letter to the Editor Poverty and blindness in Nigeria Tafida Abubakar 1 Kyari Fatima 2 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1577-9291 Abdull Mohammed 3 Hannah Faal 4 Gilbert Clare E. 5 Department of Ophthalmology, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria Department of Ophthalmology, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria Department of Ophthalmology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Clare Gilbert, clare.gilbert@lshtm.ac.uk 11082017 2017 76 1 410 © 2017. The Author(s) 2017 Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

We appreciate the recent review of some of the papers arising out of the Nigeria National Survey of Blindness and Visual Impairment by Akano OF. We would like to draw readers’ attention to our paper, which provides a detailed analysis of the association between indicators of poverty and blindness in Nigeria: Poverty and Blindness in Nigeria: Results from the National Survey of Blindness and Visual Impairment. Tafida A, Kyari F, Abdull MM, Sivasubramaniam S, Murthy GVS, Kana I, Gilbert CE. Nigeria National Survey of Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group. Ophthal Epidemiol. 2015;22(5):333–341. https://doi.org/10.3109/09286586.2015.1077259.

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The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this letter.

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How to cite this article: Tafida A, Kyari F, Abdull M, Hannah F, Gilbert CE. Poverty and blindness in Nigeria. Afr Vision Eye Health. 2017;76(1), a410. https://doi.org/10.4102/aveh.v76i1.410

Note: On behalf of the National Survey of Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group.