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Received: 29 January 2018

Accepted: 17 August 2018

First Online: 29 August 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to taking part in the study through the signature of an Information and Consent form. This form confirmed consent from participants to participate in the study as well as for The Fred Hollows Foundation to publish data collected as part of this study. For illiterate participants, the Information and Consent form was read and a fingerprint/initials requested in lieu of a signature. Confidentiality and anonymity were assured through anonymous interviews and FGDs and de-identification of all data during transcription. All procedures followed were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.The Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH) and National Ethics Committee for Health Research (NECHR) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia granted ethical approval for the study.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.This submission has not been published anywhere previously and it is not simultaneously being considered for any other publication. This paper was reviewed and rejected by the International Health Journal. The reason stated by the journal editor was that the findings outlined in the paper are likely to be of more interest to a regional audience than to an international one. We have not changed the manuscript as a result, as we think that the barriers identified by this study are actually valid in other contexts based on other research projects on barriers to eye care for women conducted (but not yet published) in Kenya and Bangladesh by The Fred Hollows Foundation.

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