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ATscale, the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology, is a cross-sector partnership with the ambitious goal of catalysing action to reach 500 million people with life-changing assistive technology by 2030.

09/10/2026

"If we make systems that work better for people with disabilities, they will work better for everybody."

As we prepare for the World Health Summit next week, we reflect on past engagements. At the 2023 World Health Summit, disability advocates, partners and leaders came together to discuss why disability inclusion and access to assistive technology are essential to achieving universal health coverage.

The session, "Reimagining Universal Health Coverage to Leave No One Behind: Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities and Access to Assistive Technology as Key Drivers to Achieving UHC," highlighted the importance of removing barriers to healthcare and ensuring people with lived experience of disability have a seat at the decision-making table.

Co-hosted by ATscale, Clinton Health Access Initiative, CBM UK, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Missing Billion Initiative, and Special Olympics, with support from the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ).

🎥 Watch the highlights: https://youtu.be/_x8tGjHJ6g0

Find out more about our plans for next week: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=EQ5jhxMzqUyVpNZmaDZbajaYZQwTIK1LqOImdkoglqxUOVdOT0I4T0dHNTZMTTJBWDVXSlFZRTNGNS4u&route=shorturl

08/10/2026

📚👁️ From guidance to action this .

Ensuring children can see clearly can make a difference to how they learn, participate and engage at school. But reaching children at scale requires vision screening to be integrated into strong and sustainable systems.

ATscale is proud to have supported the development of the World Health Organization's Implementation Handbook on Vision and Hearing Screening for School-Age Children.

The handbook provides practical guidance to help countries plan and implement school screening programmes — from screening and referral pathways to linking children with the services and assistive products they need.

It supports the wider ambition of to increase access to quality refractive error services and help make a reality.

🔎 Explore the handbook:
https://atscalepartnership.org/atscale-publications/global-guidance-approaches-integrated-vision-and-hearing-screening

On , we're highlighting not only why access to vision care matters, but also the tools and evidence that can help countries turn that ambition into action.

World Health Organization (WHO), VISION 2020/IAPB, UNICEF, Sightsavers, The Fred Hollows Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, UNOPS.

08/10/2026

❤️👁️ Today is

This year's campaign is a reminder that awareness must be matched by action to make eye health services accessible to everyone who needs them.

For hundreds of millions of people, eyeglasses support learning, employment, independence and participation in everyday life.

At ATscale, we're working with governments, partners and assistive technology users to strengthen the systems, services and markets needed to make quality, affordable assistive technology more accessible.

This World Sight Day, we join partners around the world in calling for continued action to increase access to eye health and vision services — and ensure that no one is left behind.

Let's turn awareness into access.

VISION 2020/IAPB, World Health Organization (WHO), Sightsavers, Light for the World, The Fred Hollows Foundation, VisionSpring, Peek Vision, RestoringVision, World Blind Union, UNICEF, UNOPS,

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07/10/2026

👓 How can vision screening and eyeglasses provision reach more people in low-resource settings?

Uncorrected refractive error affects hundreds of millions of people in low- and middle-income countries, where access to screening can be limited and shortages of trained eye care personnel remain a challenge.

ATscale commissioned IQVIA and L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) to conduct a multi-country study across Ethiopia, Nepal and Nigeria, comparing handheld autorefractors with conventional methods.

The study, published last year, explored prescription accuracy and how these portable technologies could be integrated into public health systems, including their potential to support on-the-spot spectacles provision.

The findings are accompanied by practical country guidance for eye and vision care stakeholders.

👉 Explore the technical report and country guidance, and watch the webinar recording :
https://atscalepartnership.org/atscale-publications/autorefractor-technical-report-and-country-guidance

As we mark this week, evidence and innovation can help bring quality vision services closer to the people who need them.

World Health Organization (WHO), Sightsavers, UNOPS.

07/10/2026

🔎 Access to eyeglasses starts long before someone puts on their first pair.

It requires accessible screening and assessment, trained personnel, referral pathways, quality and affordable products, and services that can reach people where they live.

That's why ATscale works with governments and partners to strengthen the systems behind assistive technology.

In Cambodia, 21 vision centres have been strengthened, improving access to vision services in rural communities. In 2025, ATscale also supported work on portable handheld autorefractors and implementation guidance for integrated school vision screening.

Making vision services accessible at scale means moving beyond one-off provision towards sustainable, locally led systems.

The Fred Hollows Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, World Health Organization (WHO), VISION 2020/IAPB, Sightsavers, Peek Vision, VisionSpring, RestoringVision, UNOPS.

06/10/2026

👓 Every story counts. Meet Leakna.

Leakna is a student from Choam Khsan District in Cambodia. Access to prescription glasses and ongoing eye care has improved her ability to access learning.

Her story is a reminder that behind every statistic is a person — and that access to the right assistive technology can support people to learn, participate and pursue opportunities.

Ahead of , we're joining IAPB's initiative in putting people's experiences at the heart of the conversation on eye health and access.

Because everyone who needs eyeglasses should be able to access quality, affordable products and services.

👉 Read more about Leakna’s story in ATscale’s 2025 Annual Review: https://atscalepartnership.org/atscale-publications/2025-annual-review

VISION 2020/IAPB, The Fred Hollows Foundation, World Blind Union, Sightsavers, CBM UK, Light for the World, International Disability Alliance

05/10/2026

👓 This week, ahead of , we're putting the spotlight on vision and the systems that make access to vision services possible.

ATscale has reached 2.4 million people with vision-related assistive technology, including 276,000 people reached with eyeglasses. In Cambodia, 21 vision centres were strengthened to improve access to vision services in rural communities.

Behind these numbers is a simple goal: ensuring that people who need eyeglasses and vision services can access them through stronger, sustainable systems.

This week, we'll be sharing more about the people, services and solutions helping make that possible.

VISION 2020/IAPB, World Health Organization (WHO), Sightsavers, The Fred Hollows Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, UNOPS.

02/10/2026

For 14-year-old Ineza, the right hearing aid and hearing care could make a world of difference.

It could help her participate more fully in the classroom, connect with those around her and pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.

But for her family, the cost is out of reach.

Ineza’s story illustrates a wider challenge: access to should be based on need—not ability to pay.

So how can countries make that a reality?

ATscale’s recent webinar on Domestic Financing for Assistive Technology explored practical approaches to strengthening financing systems, making better use of available resources and reducing the financial barriers that prevent people from accessing the assistive products and services they need.

🎥 Watch Inza’s story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VPhrUCJ6GE

▶️ Watch the full webinar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We4E2OVFx_4

Recordings are also available in French, Spanish and Russian on ATscale’s YouTube channel.

30/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar on Domestic Financing for Assistive Technology! 🙌

250 people from 61 countries joined the discussion, which brought together perspectives from government, assistive technology users, researchers and international organizations to explore how stronger financing systems can help make access to more affordable, sustainable and based on need rather than ability to pay.

🎥 Missed the webinar or want to watch it again?
The full English recording is now available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We4E2OVFx_4

Recordings in French, Spanish and Russian are also available on ATscale’s YouTube channel.

📘 Building on ATscale’s technical report on domestic financing, a new peer-reviewed article has now been published in Frontiers in Public Health: “Financing assistive technology—Policy options on the path towards universal health coverage.”

The article explores practical financing policy options across the three dimensions of universal health coverage—who is covered, which assistive products and services are covered, and how costs are covered—and highlights how more strategic use of available resources can help increase affordable access to assistive technology.

📖 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1901297/full

Thank you again to our speakers and everyone who joined the conversation and shared their perspectives.

28/09/2026

📢 A new WHO report, supported by ATscale, provides important evidence to help strengthen the market in Azerbaijan.

The Assistive Technology Market Assessment Report: Azerbaijan, published by WHO Regional Office for Europe, examines the market for wheelchairs, hearing aids, and prosthetics and orthotics—looking at demand and supply, affordability, quality, regulation and access.

The assessment highlights opportunities to strengthen the assistive technology ecosystem through:
🔹 Data-driven procurement strategies
🔹 Stronger collaboration between service providers and across sectors
🔹 Regional partnerships for more cost-effective solutions
🔹 Sustainable financing mechanisms
🔹 Stronger quality standards and assistive technology services

ATscale is pleased to have supported the implementation of the Scaling up Access to Assistive Products in Health and Social Protection Systems initiative in Azerbaijan and provided resources that contributed to this work.

The findings provide an important evidence base for continued policy dialogue and action to make quality assistive products and services more available, affordable and accessible to people who need them.

📖 Read the report:
https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2026-13204-52978-82601

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