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There is an epidemic of childhood blindness from retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in developing countries as a result of the expansion of intensive neonatal care, often associated with the lack of controlled oxygen support for the infants, compounded by a scarcity of ROP education or ROP screening programs.
In Uganda, for example, 4000 infants are born per day, with a 14% incidence of preterm birth and a 5-10% risk of severe ROP. Therefore, at least 10,200 infants are at risk of blindness each year in this small sub-Saharan African country where resources are scarce and ROP is an unknown and unrecognized disease.
