1. WHO, Country Health Indicators: Peru (2003). 
2. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: Peru (2003). 
3. Ibid. 
4. Ibid.
5. WHO, Country Health Indicators: Peru (2003). 
6. Ibid.
7. UNDP, Human Development Report, Country Sheet: Peru (2003).
8. Ibid.
9. WHO, Country Health Indicators: Peru (2003). 
10. Ibid.
11. S. Resnikoff, D. Pascolini, D Eyta’ale, I. Kocur, R. Pararajasegaram, G. Pokharel, S. Mariotti, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2004), “Global Data on Visual Impairment in the Year 2002” 82:11. This number was estimated based on population surveys from all countries in the America’s region in same mortality strata as Peru.
12. 0.5% of total population.
13. S. Resnikoff, et al.
14. 2% of total population.
15. S. Resnikoff, et al.
16. Ibid.
17. C. Gilbert and A. Foster, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2001), “Childhood Blindness in the Context of VISION 2020 – The Right to Sight,” 79:3.
18. VISION 2020, IAPB, WHO, State of the World’s Sight VISION 2020: The Right to Sight 1999-2005.
19. WHO, VISION 2020 Country Profile: Peru (2002).