Awareness

“Everyone should have the chance to hear well”

 
 

social investment

© Hear the World Foundation    Praise, from Malawi, has learned to speak thanks to hearing aids donated by the Hear the World Foundation, and she attends a normal school.

Hear the World, founded by the Sonova Group, has for many years supported projects to help children with hearing loss around the world. The new director of the foundation, Dr. Joëlle Pianzola, gives us a glimpse behind the scenes and her visions for the future.

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Hearing loss sufferers in 14 developing and emerging countries to benefit from Austrian-led Hearing Healthcare Alliance

 

solidarity

© MED-EL

The global implantable tech company MED-EL has teamed up with two Austrian government bodies to manage a Hearing Healthcare Alliance to operate a five-year program to improve the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of people with hearing loss.

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WHO Hearing awareness campaigns can spotlight need for a national screening initiative, says leading audiologist at UK's biggest audiology chain.

 
 

World Hearing Day

© WHO

International campaigns such as the World Health Organisation's (WHO) World Hearing Day (March 3, 2022) can spotlight the care and prevention narrative, although their impact varies according to territories' infrastructure and access to devices.

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Audiologists can raise awareness around World Hearing Day 2022 with tools supplied by battery producer Rayovac

 

World Hearing Day

© Rayovac       Actor Danny Murphy explains the importance of long-lasting hearing aid batteries.

Battery manufacturer Rayovac is getting behind the hearing loss awareness drive for World Hearing Day - March 3, 2022 - by telling Life Without Limits stories of ordinary people facing auditory challenges.

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Amplifon makes media medic Sarah Jarvis its UK face

 

marketing

© Amplifon

Global hearing giant Amplifon has recruited TV doctor Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE to play an ambassadorial role as its medical advisor, offering advice to customers on hearing loss over the next 12 months.

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City noise annoys most but does it really comfort some Londoners?

 
 

noise pollution

© georgeclerk - iStock     Traffic on the M8 motorway rushing through central Glasgow.

While the English capital calls for a drop in noise levels, and Scotland’s largest city shows its main motorway is as loud as an airport runway, the Belgian city of Genk has brought in a major tech company to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to solve its sound pollution problems.

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More prestigious recognition for Sonova's classy hearing awareness and product films

 
 

marketing

© Sonova/Slivio Gerber

Once again, the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards has recognised the marketing finesse of hearing giant Sonova, two of its Life without Limitations film products capturing the jury's favour in the November festival.

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Firework noise threat to hearing and pets shifts perspectives across UK on Guy Fawkes night celebration

 

noise pollution

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The sound intensity of pyrotechnic use on and around November 5 in the UK is being strongly targeted nationwide as a cause of hearing damage to humans and distress to animals, bringing calls for time-limited, low noise displays and even outright bans.

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Peace laureate joins Cochlear Foundation in drive to underline CI benefits in child access to education

 
 

campaign

© Cochlear      Young CI-wearing girl enjoying class in Achieve Anything Programme video

Millions of children around the world - especially girls - face barriers to education. Having hearing loss further hinders this all-important access. To highlight this issue, the world's youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner has partnered with an industry-backed not-for-profit hearing health foundation.

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Predictions for 2031. De Wet Swanepoel : How COVID triggered the hearing health care revolution

 
 

futures

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We consulted 15 audiology experts on what everyone in hearing health will be talking about in 2031? No. 1: De Wet Swanepoel.

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