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About Aniridia Network

A charity support group for people with the genetic visual impairment aniridia and their families in the UK and Ireland. Our vision is that people with/associated with aniridia are hopeful, confident, supported and well informed regarding aniridia. Founded in 2000. First registered as a charity in 2011 and fully in 2018.

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Donate to Aniridia Network UK via ebay

Do you buy or sell on eBay? Now you can and raise money for Aniridia Network UK at the same time. We’ve registered with Mission Fish – ebay’s charity partner website. So now you can sell an item on ebay … Continue reading

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Sunglasses wearing dog has anirida

Isn´t this dog cute, with its sunglasses? She has aniridia! Rosa from the Spanish aniridia association happened to meet, Ana, a generous person who adopted this abandoned dog as her pet – nobody else wanted it because it had aniridia. It is now happy with sunglasses … Continue reading

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Peter and Lyn include Aniridia Network UK in their wills

By Peter and Lyn Having recently retired, our thoughts turned to updating our wills. We have always been extremely grateful for the support and advice we received from others when our son James was diagnosed with aniridia back in 1979. Back … Continue reading

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Invitation to the Oslo Aniridia Conference

Aniridi Norge (the Norwegian aniridia association) has organised the first European scientific conference about aniridia as well as an international gathering for the aniridia community. You are invited between 8 and 10 June 2012. James and Katie from Aniridia Network … Continue reading

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Natasha and Violet: fundraising and media stars

  Natasha, mum to Violet with aniridia responded to our calls for fundraising and media volunteers. She’s been holding raffles and selling goods via Facebook in her home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. The current drive is for Easter eggs … Continue reading

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Prepare for Rare Disease Day: Wednesday 29 February 2012

Rare but strong together A rare medical condition affects less than 1 in 2000 people. Aniridia affects about 1 in 100,000 people. Even fewer have WAGR/11p deletion syndrome making it ultra-rare. But collectively people who have rare conditions are not … Continue reading

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Dr Agarwal describes using a glued iris prosthesis

Ophthalmic surgeons have described various techniques to fix iris deficiencies. For the most part, these improve the patient’s visual quality. In this column, Dr Agarwal describes a surgical technique of using a glued iris prosthesis, namely a PMMA aniridia intraocular … Continue reading

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Aniridia Network UK online in 2011

In 2011 This site was viewed about 5,700 times. If it were a train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. There were 35 new articles, growing the total to 51. Our Facebook page: grew to … Continue reading

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London meet up: A personal review

By Keith The London meet up was surreal. Of the 14 people who turned up, so many of them were so like me. In one evening, I learnt so much about a condition I’ve had since birth. For the first … Continue reading

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