Prevalence of ametropia in Ugandan soldiers

Abstract

A U.S. Army Optometry team was dispatched as part of the Africa Crisis Initiative to Uganda to provide vision care to a battalion-size task force of the Ugandan Army. Their mission was to ensure vision readiness of the unit and to promote humanitarian good will. Of the 692 soldiers refracted, 117 required spectacle correction to be vision ready. One hundred one records were available to be examined. The distribution of ametropia among this population is consistent with other studies of Third World countries.