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Per your profile, you ask a dumb / vague question to Reddit almost every day. Pick up a book, or try google. This sub-Reddit is for real people with real questions. You didn’t even look at the sub-Reddit history did you? Quit wasting our time.

Why would I (as a fully blind person from birth) even want to be sighted?

I can understand for people who were born with sight. But I personally wouldn't want sight. I'm quite happy the way I am.

I think we're constantly reducing blindness, curing/preventing one form of blindness at a time. Retinal detachment surgery is fairly common and has a high success rate, without which roughly 1 in every 10,000 people would lose their vision each year. We've come a long way, but we've also still got a long way to go.

Depends the condition. Some, but not all.

No. But there are projects to understand and improve the vision of a few very specific causes of blindness like retinitis pigmentosa. There are almost as many ways to go blind as there are blind people. It can't just be cured like smallpox or something like that. It depends on why someone is blind and how.

Retina researcher checking in! The eye is a very hot research area for many reasons, however the focus is much more on preventing, slowing or reversing vision loss in those who have had sight. These involve various attempts at gene therapy, cell reprogramming and stem cell treatment on the biological side, as well as electrode implantation and camera assisted vision projects on the more engineering side. But there is no way to repair blindness yet. Loss of vision can come from many different sources so there won't be one catch all solution.

As for individuals who are born without vision, giving them the ability to see is a far more difficult prospect. Also, many people who have never had sight may also just may not want it. Or they don't view it as something that needs to be "cured".

So yes, lots of work being done but it's not an easy problem!

YES. Thousands and thousands of researchers, scientists, and doctors are working on this.

Depending on the disease or condition, solutions are closer or farther away. For example, if you were born without eyes, solving this issues is further away than, say, curing macular degeneration.

Researchers around the world are working hard to cure vision loss and blindness. Every year, hundreds of studies are being conducted, papers are being published, and experts are speaking on the latest breakthroughs in this effort.

To see this for yourself, you can do a Google search on "vision loss" and "research" (or "blindness" and "research") and you will get literally millions of references to follow up.

Or you can keep up with the Lancet, an independent, international weekly general medical journal founded in 1823... or hundreds of other medical journals, such as The American Journal of Ophthalmology (or ones in your own country and language).

Really depends on the cause of vision loss. Cataracts is worldwide the leading cause of vision loss, but there are effective treatments in developed countries.

Parent of a blind child here. It is theoretically possible to cure some form of blindness; however, other than a few very select cases there is no “cure” for blindness.

I was born with gluacoma. My doctor has been working for years! She's a top pediatric gluacoma specialist. Honestly, I haven't checked on the research in years so I'm not 100% sure.

Like previously stated though it depends on the condition.

Well, on my case which is optic nerve damage, they have to develop some kind of nerve regeneration. They are working on it, but its going to take so much time.

They're always experimenting with ways to improve/cure blindness. In my case, they're not even close, and I wouldn't take it if they discovered a cure tomorrow. I don't particularly feel like relearning how to do pretty much everything.