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Andrew Bastawrous Rolex 2016 LAUREATE

“I accept this award on behalf of a lady called Maria. She’s a young Kenyan mother of three who’d walked for miles on a rumour she’d heard that we were running an eye clinic. When she came we found that she was blind in both eyes."
20 Dec 2016 Read More

Peek wins international Design Award

“Peek wins INDEX: Award 2015 partly because the portable, user-friendly, low-cost design solution is one significant step towards achieving the 66th World Health Assembly Action Plan, which aims to achieve a global reduction of avoidable visual impairments of 25 percent by 2019”, said the international INDEX: Award Jury.
25 Oct 2016 Read More

Kenya School Screening Study

Watch this video to learn the story of Mr Kadiri and Pravin.
23 Oct 2016 Read More

Peek Acuity app works as well as charts

Tests in patients’ homes found that Peek Acuity produced results to a clinical level equivalent to the much larger and more expensive standard electricity dependent chart – the average difference being the equivalent of less than one line on an eye chart.
21 Oct 2016 Read More

Peek Vision at TED.com

The video includes a live demonstration of our adapter for looking at a patient’s retina with the help of a kind volunteer from the audience.
20 Oct 2016 Read More

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“When you meet people and you can solve their problem, it’s a great feeling - it is not just my joy, but the joy of the patient. And when you share their joy then that is double joy.”

Dr Hillary Rono

Ophthalmologist and Peek Kenya Country Manager