![Award winning journalist and Seven News Melbourne newsreader, Mike Amor.](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/Mike%20Amor%20740%20x%20444%20px%20%281%29.png)
Award winning journalist and Seven News Melbourne newsreader, Mike Amor has joined Glaucoma Australia as an official Ambassador in the fight against eye disease and just in time for World Glaucoma Week (10-16 March).
![World Glaucoma Week March 10 - 16, 2024](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/Untitled%20%28740%20x%20444%20px%29.png)
This World Glaucoma Week (10–16 March 2024), Glaucoma Australia is urging all Australians to have their eyes checked, as well as reminding those with a glaucoma diagnosis to adhere to their treatment to slow its progression and save precious sight.
![An image of a clock showing 5 minutes to midnight](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/5%20Minutes%20to%20Midnight%20740%20x%20444%20px.png)
Just over a year ago, a glaucoma specialist told Duncan Craib he was “five minutes from midnight”: unless urgent action was taken, he’d likely be blind in two to three months.
![Bette Smith](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/Bette.png)
When Bette Smith’s cousin told her they had glaucoma in the family, she did what all Australians should be doing, she got her eyes checked.
![Debra Lillecrapp](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/Debra.png)
Living in York Peninsula community two hour's drive from Adelaide and with no optometrist in her local community, Debra booked an appointment as soon as she could. That’s when she received her life changing diagnosis.
![An African woman having her eyes examined by an optometrist](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/African%20Glaucoma%20Gene%20Clue%20740%20x%20444%20px%20%281%29.png)
People of African ancestry are five times as likely as others to develop glaucoma and up to 15 times as likely to be blinded by the condition, but most research has used data from people of European ancestry.
![Close up of a nerve cell](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/Eye%20740%20x%20444%20px%20%281%29_0.png)
Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine hope to develop new glaucoma therapies by testing human neurons and a regenerative therapy to rescue dying visual neurons. They’ve received a new five year, US$2 million grant from the National Eye Institute for the project.
![Elaine watering a plant on her balcony](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-02/Elaine%20740%20x%20444%20px.png)
My mother was diagnosed with glaucoma when she was about seventy, so I was closely monitored. When there were indicators that I could be following the same path, I was referred to a glaucoma specialist.
![Duncan Craib “I hope by sharing my story it will draw awareness to glaucoma](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/Duncan%20Craib%20740x444.png)
When father-of-two and Boss Energy CEO Duncan Craib was told he had lost peripheral vision due to glaucoma he was completely shocked – and upset with himself for not having booked an eye check earlier.