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The global inverse care law: a distorted map of blindness
  1. Andrew Bastawrous1,
  2. Benjamin D Hennig2
  1. 1International Centre for Eye Health, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  1. Correspondence to Andrew Bastawrous, MRC Clinical Research Fellow in International Eye Health, International Centre for Eye Health, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; andrew.bastawrous{at}lshtm.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-302088

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    • Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. AB is in receipt of a joint MRC and Fight for Sight Clinical Research Fellowship and funding from the International Glaucoma Association (IGA) and the British Council for the Prevention of Blindness (BCPB).

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.