83% of French people say they are in favor of compulsory visual screening before the age of 3, while 94% want it to be reinforced within the framework of school. Children are precisely at the heart of the government’s national health strategy, which must put preventive actions in place in early 2018. But what are the facts? Today, 25% of schoolchildren have a visual disturbance, half of which does not benefit from an optical correction. That is to say about 500,000 children, from CP to CM 2, who have a deceptive vision which risks delaying or endangering their schooling.

In another area, 88% of the French are in favor of the introduction of vision control when passing a driving license and at key ages for 87% . This subject of drivers’ eyesight has been a priority for AsnaV since 1962, the date of its slogan “At the wheel, sight is life”. Since then,  AsnaV has developed numerous actions focused on eye tests carried out on tens of thousands of people which have made it possible to collect an unstoppable statistic: 8 million drivershave at least one uncorrected or poorly corrected vision disorder. However, this impressive figure is not taken into account by the State because we lack scientific studies establishing the correlation with accidentology, unlike other causes (speed, alcohol, narcotics …).