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COVID-19 Response Efforts

How Johnson & Johnson Vision is Supporting the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We're committed to helping individuals and communities around the world manage the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19.

Vision for Good

Our Global Vision for Good

Serving more than 60 million people in 103 countries, we are helping people see better, connect better, live better. Because sight is more than simply seeing: It’s a profound way to connect with the world around us, and with each other.

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The Dark Side Of Light

Focusing In On the Everyday Impact Of Bothersome Light

Even though light can make our days brighter (figuratively and literally) it also has a dark side.

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Intelligent Invention

ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses That Actively Reduce and Filter Bright Light

How often do you find yourself squinting throughout the day? Whether walking outdoors into sunlight or spending long days at your desk, you may not even realize you’re doing it. Sensitivity to changing light conditions can be bothersome to our eyes and visioni.

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Halting Global Myopia Epidemic

Envisioning A World Without Myopia

Sight is precious; it’s the human sense people fear losing most, but often take for granted. In the following video, hear Stella’s story of how myopia, or nearsightedness, has impacted her life and how she is working to change the course for her son, Isaiah. Like many, Stella didn’t realize the consequences of this debilitating condition until it had already progressed.

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Honoring World Sight Day

Join Us to Provide Eye Care to Those Who Need It Most

Each day, we use our vision to take pictures of important moments of our life – celebrations of birth and birthdays, marriages and anniversaries, vacations and new homes. Photographs are a timeline of our lives filled with faces and places that we love… to see.

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In focus: Myopia

Tips

Distance viewing - Every 20 minutes

Do some distance viewing for 20 seconds every 20 minutes at days with many reading or screen work.

Distance viewing - Every 40 minutes

Do some distance viewing for 20 seconds every 20 minutes at days with many reading or screen work.

Distance viewing - Every 60 minutes

Do some distance viewing for 20 seconds every 20 minutes at days with many reading or screen work.

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Myopia
Facts

There is a lack of awareness when it comes to Myopia, because it has been easy to treat the symptoms.

When people get glasses or contact lenses and their vision improves, they ignore the condition further. But this could lead to retinal problems or Glaucoma 20, 30, 40 years later.

50%

By 2050, half of the world’s population (50%) is projected to be myopic.

1 Billion

By 2050, 1 billion people are expected to have high myopia, a severe form of the condition.

10 to 80%

In China, among children ages six to 18, myopia prevalence rises from less than 10 to 80 percent.

$202 billion

Uncorrected distance refractive errors, largely caused by myopia, are already estimated to cost global healthcare systems US$202 billion annually.

Connected by Sight

Patients and Experts are all connected

Changing the trajectory of eye health requires a collaborative effort between the brightest minds — eye care professionals and associations — and patients, connected in our efforts to improve the quality of care and sight around the world.