Curran, Katie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7071-109X
Piyasena, Prabhath
Congdon, Nathan
Duke, Lisa
Malanda, Belma
Peto, Tunde
Article History
Received: 22 March 2021
Accepted: 15 November 2022
First Online: 2 January 2023
Declarations
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: Since the methodology applied consisted of reviewing and collecting data from publicly available resources, ethical approval was not required. For the consultation stage, officials from the MOH and NGOs from LMICs provided country-level data on DESPs. No identifiable information was sought at any stage, and no ethical approval was required as recommended by the Ethics Committee at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).
: Professor Congdon discloses that he is employed as Director of Research by Orbis International, an NGO active in the area of diabetic retinopathy in LMICs.