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Public corrections log

Dated fixes to facts, registration wording and editorial claims. Last updated 4 October 2026.

Quick answer

World Aid Network logs material corrections publicly with dates. Report errors to [email protected]. We correct registration wording, unit costs, clinical claims and broken sources; typos that do not change meaning may be fixed silently. The editorial policy explains what triggers a logged fix.

How corrections are handled

When we make a mistake in programme facts, unit costs, governance status or clinical summaries, we correct it and record material changes here. We do not quietly rewrite history on registration or Gift Aid eligibility.

How to report an inaccuracy

Email [email protected] with the URL and what you believe is wrong. We aim to acknowledge within five working days. See also the editorial policy.

  1. 2026-10-04

    Further eye-care corrections and Indonesia guidance

    A further review found claims missed in the earlier cleanup: permanent sight restoration, fixed procedure costs, blanket clinical-review credits and unconfirmed screening access remained on several eye-care pages. Replaced these with qualified care, funding and availability explanations, including matching structured data and Markdown. Added an Indonesian-language care guide, clearer patient and professional routes, and approval requirements for published camp records and clinician review credits. No PERDAMI partnership, clinic dates, clinician sign-off or patient outcomes are implied by these additions.

  2. 2026-10-04

    Giving estimates, Gift Aid and organisation status

    Replaced fixed-operation and relief-quantity promises across giving pages with contribution wording. Rebuilt donation calculators to calculate donor giving totals without inventing completed care. Removed the cataract sponsorship Product price and unsourced country-price comparisons. Clarified that CIO registration is pending and Gift Aid needs separate HMRC recognition plus donor and donation eligibility. Gift Aid is not currently available. Updated agent responses and discovery descriptions to match these limits.

  3. 2026-10-04

    Blog and eye-health sources, summaries and comparison claims

    Added usable source links and removed automatic medical-review claims on eye-health and generic article templates. Stopped truncating summary qualifications to a fixed word count. Rewrote blood-cancer treatment support guidance to remove the unsafe blanket claim that starting then interrupting treatment is worse than not starting. Corrected retail Gift Aid guidance and the donation-policy article’s description of JustGiving platform and processing fees. Repaired obsolete external references and added clearer topic navigation and library filtering.

  4. 2026-10-04

    Screening intervals, Movember fundraising and appeal evidence

    Corrected outdated cervical screening intervals and the Scotland bowel screening age. Aligned conflicting lung survival wording with a linked source and removed unsupported comparisons. Rewrote the Movember guide to explain independent fundraising and remove fixed treatment prices. Dated Pakistan flood statistics to 2022 with UNICEF sources, clarified the existing surplus policy, and removed unsupported delivery-time and fixed-kit claims from the Crisis, Humanitarian and Disasters appeals. Repaired the obsolete NHS skin-cancer source link. These are editorial corrections, not a claim of clinical sign-off or independently verified programme delivery.

  5. 2026-10-04

    Cancer guide sources, review labels and donation claims

    Replaced wording implying clinical sign-off on cancer guides with an explicit editorial-summary statement. Added linked sources and contextual references. Removed the unsupported prostate ten-year localised-survival claim and identified the populations and periods behind replacement CRUK figures. Updated PSA wording to reflect current NHS guidance, including BRCA2, and replaced the prostate and breast eligibility calculators with appointment discussion planners. Removed fixed-treatment promises from the shared cancer guide donation module. Suggested gifts are contributions to the wider fund, not guarantees of a chemotherapy session or operation.

  6. 2026-07-17

    Donate CTAs relabelled

    Enabled live Stripe online card and Apple Pay / Google Pay checkout across all donation forms and appeal pages.

  7. 2026-07-28

    Markdown mirrors and cache negotiation

    Fixed broken .md alternates and edge cache poisoning risk for Accept/User-Agent negotiated Markdown, and sharpened SERP/AEO copy on key programme pages.

  8. 2026-08-10

    Trust and machine-surface suite

    Published /editorial-policy, /corrections, /author/kaiser-khan, /method/funding and /open-data; added Content-Signal robots groups, build-generated llms.txt, RSS, datapackage and read-only MCP — with build gates enforcing the surfaces.

  9. 2026-08-15

    Indonesia Emergency Appeal caseload correction

    Removed unsourced figures on /appeal/indonesia-emergency that described an 8 April 2026 magnitude 7.4 earthquake displacing over two million people and destroying 120,000 homes. The USGS event is 1 April 2026 22:48 UTC (2 April local), Mw 7.4 (event us6000slss). BBC reported one death in Manado. Antara reported 1,966 people displaced on Batang Dua (6 April 2026). USGS PAGER exposure of about 2.1 million people to moderate shaking is not a displacement count. The page is now a standing Indonesia tsunami and earthquake appeal with sourced historical context.

  10. 2026-08-24

    Charity lottery thresholds, age and harm figures

    Corrected /charity-lottery. Small society lottery limits are £20,000 proceeds per lottery and £250,000 in a calendar year, with a £25,000 maximum prize (Gambling Commission) — not “annual proceeds under £20,000 and a single draw under £2,000”. Society lottery tickets must not be sold to or by under-16s; the National Lottery is 18+ (the page had stated 18+ as the legal floor for charity lotteries). Gambling-harm stats now cite GSGB 2024 (2.7% of adults 18+ PGSI 8+) and the OHID 2023 suicide range (117–496 in England), replacing unsourced 1-in-25, 1.4 million and 409-as-a-hard-count figures. Card donations are open now; the old “give once registration allows” line was wrong.

  11. 2026-08-24

    Will guide probate fee, emergency-aid claims and water 80% figure

    Corrected /blog/making-a-will-legacy-giving-uk-guide: the England and Wales probate application fee is £526 from 13 July 2026 for estates over £5,000 (HMCTS) — not the old £273 (2024/25) figure. Gift Aid does not apply to a gift in a will; the how-to no longer implies a lifetime Gift Aid top-up on a testamentary gift. On /blog/emergency-aid, removed “every pound goes directly to the family” / “not a single penny diverted to salaries” wording (we do not claim a 100% donation policy). On /clean-water-charity, replaced an unsourced “80% of illness after a shock” line with Sphere’s 15 litres per person per day and WHO emergency-water guidance.