Category: Disease Control

This little one has a big future ahead

In India, there are about 3.5 million premature births annually, and more than 150,000 are liable to develop Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). Without early diagnosis and treatment, infants like little Aarsh, pictured here with his mother Shabana, could otherwise have faced a life with irreversible blindness. Learn more.

Look at those big, beautiful eyes! This is baby Aarsh, from a small village just outside Moradabad city, in Uttar Pradesh, India. At seven months old, he weighs about seven pounds – what many babies weigh at birth. Aarsh’s mother, Shabana, was only seven months pregnant when she delivered him prematurely. Little Aarsh had been… Continue reading This little one has a big future ahead