By 2050, around one-in-four people will be living with some degree of hearing loss, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday, in its first World Report on.
As World Hearing Day is observed on Wednesday, activists believe there is still not enough awareness being done around hearing impairment and deafness.
Dr Dianne Bell from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology said because it’s an invisible disability, the constitutional rights for people with hearing impairment are often overlooked and they are excluded from conversations.
“A typical example is that we see now when the president addresses the nation on any development regarding Covid-19 in the country, there is only a sign language interpreter. Only 10% of the people living with hearing impairment in the country use sign language,” she told TimesLIVE.
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This year s World Hearing Day theme is Hearing Care For All
New Delhi: The World Hearing Day is celebrated on March 3 annually to raise awareness, advocacy and action against hearing loss and deafness and to promote hearing care across the globe. The World Hearing Day was started in 2007 by the Office of Prevention of Blindness and Deafness of the World Health Organization (WHO). It was called International Ear Care Day till 2016.
Each year on World Hearing Day a theme is selected around which study material, data and awareness is generated along with a call for global action. This year s theme is Hearing Care For All . In keeping with this year s theme, we share with you why hearing care should be a part of primary healthcare.
WATCH | Ndlovu Youth Choir put their special spin on Wonderful World for World Hearing Day 03 March 2021 - 11:51 The Ndlovu Youth Choir put their special spin on Louis Armstrong s classic What a Wonderful World for World Hearing Day. Image: Corinna Tannian
To celebrate World Hearing Day, Ndlovu Youth Choir has released their rendition of Louis Armstrong s classic
What a
Wonderful World.
World Hearing Day is held each year on March 3 to raise awareness on how to prevent deafness and hearing loss and promote ear and hearing care across the world.
Each year, the World Health Organisation decides the theme, and this year s theme is “hearing care for all”.
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A hearing professional is fitting a hearing aid in Sonova Real Life Lab in Stafa, Switzerland, in 2019. (Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
The World Health Organization estimated that over a billion young people are at risk of hearing loss due to the common practice of listening to loud music for prolonged periods, according to its latest report released on Wednesday.
The Geneva-headquartered organization assessed that nearly 6 percent, or over 460 million of the population, experiences a moderate or higher degree of hearing loss, also termed as disabling hearing loss, according to its World Report on Hearing Hearing Care for All: Screen. Rehabilitate. Communicate , the first of its kind, launched by the WHO on World Hearing Day on Wednesday.