03/03/2026
Today is World Hearing Day!!!!👂
This year, WHD highlights the theme "From communities to classrooms: hearing care for all children."
The campaign focuses on two imperatives:
1. Preventing avoidable childhood hearing loss
2. Ensuring early identification of and care for children with ear or hearing problems
Globally, school-age children with hearing loss often remain undiagnosed and without access to needed services (World report on hearing, 2021). Hearing loss affects around 90 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 years, across all parts of the world (Global burden of disease study, 2021). Howe...