{"id":42996,"date":"2025-11-12T17:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/?p=42996"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:36:52","slug":"memorandum-of-understanding-regarding-the-myopia-in-arabic-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/42996","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum of Understanding regarding the Myopia in Arabic Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42997\" style=\"width:483px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9966.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of efforts to strengthen scientific and professional collaboration among Arab organizations specialized in vision sciences, and within the activities of the 10th Saudi Optometry Conference 2025 held in Riyadh, the Saudi Society of Optometry (SSO) and the Sudanese Optometry Society (SOS) had signed a MOU aimed at fostering partnership between the two parties under the \u201cMyopia in Arabic\u201d initiative, which is sponsored and supervised by the Saudi Society of Optometry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This step reflects the mutual commitment of both societies to advancing the fields of optometry in the Arab region and to supporting joint initiatives in public awareness, scientific research, professional training, and knowledge exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memorandum was signed by:<br>Dr. Waleed Al-Ghamdi, President of the Saudi Society of Optometry,<br>and Dr. Mustafa Abdu, President of the Sudanese Optometry Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the signing ceremony, both parties emphasized the importance of this collaboration in serving the profession and enhancing the standards of optometric practice in both countries, in support of the objectives of the \u201cMyopia in Arabic\u201d initiative \u2014 which aims to reduce the prevalence of myopia among children and youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of efforts to strengthen scientific and professional collaboration among Arab organizations specialized in vision sciences, and within the activities of the 10th Saudi Optometry Conference 2025 held in Riyadh, the Saudi Society of Optometry (SSO) and the Sudanese Optometry Society (SOS) had signed a MOU aimed at fostering partnership between the two parties&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42998,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions\/42998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-optometry.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}