About Us

The IGA is a registered charity which offers advice and support to glaucoma sufferers, campaigns for improved glaucoma services for glaucoma patients and aims to increase public awareness of glaucoma. We also fund considerable clinical research into the nature and treatment of the condition.

Membership of the IGA is open to patients, optometrists, opticians, doctors and all those interested in preventing loss of sight from glaucoma.

Although mainly active in the UK for geographical reasons, our aim is to prevent loss of sight from glaucoma throughout the world through our worldwide network of members and also by cooperating with organisations in other countries with comparable objectives. At present these include Australia, Bangladesh, Finland, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jersey, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, and Trinidad and Tobago.

We have Representative Membership of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.