Family Curriculum Workshop and World Hearing Day in Ethiopia
World Hearing Day 2025 in Ethiopia was marked with the launch of the Family Curriculum Workshop, which took place in Addis Ababa on 3 and 4 March. The main goal of the event was to empower families of children with hearing loss with most essential theoretical knowledge and practical rehabilitation tips and tools.
Family Curriculum Workshop in Ghana
On 6 March 2025 Family Curriculum Programme was launch in Ghana with a two-day training workshop in Accra. Apart from the 40 families of children with CI or the ones awaiting to be implanted coming from different regions of the country, the director of the Ghana Health Service, audiologists and an ENT surgeon were among the guests of the event.
Family Curriculum Workshop in Tanzania
The first programme of the Family Curriculum was launched on 13 February 2025 in Tanzania with a two-day workshop. After months of thorough preparation, which included translation and adaptation of materials into Swahili and involved input from speech and language therapists, as well as international and local rehabilitation specialists, the HearWell Audiology Clinic set out to implement the programme locally for parents of children with cochlear implants and hearing aids.
Roadmap to Sustainability
Within the recent meeting at the Ministry of Health of Bhutan we worked out a plan for a sustainable implementation of the project elements of the Hearing Healthcare Alliance. Many thanks to our local partners and decision makers for the fruitful discussions!
Strengthening the Partnership
Since 2018 the Hearing Healthcare Alliance (HHA) has been supporting Bangladesh in many ways. During our latest trip to Dhaka we could meet the hearing healthcare experts of several institutions and discuss the further implementation of the HHA’s project elements. Many thanks to our local partners for the constant collaboration!
Newborn Hearing Screening for All
In 2022 the Hearing Healthcare Alliance (HHA) started a pilot project for universal Newborn Hearing Screening (NHS) at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Thanks to a collaboration with the South Tyrolean “World Doctors” a similar programme could be established in Dulikhel Hospital. In a recent meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Health of Nepal we could discuss the outcomes and learnings of the NHS projects.
Onsite PCHR Workshop for Group 3 in Nairobi
From 16 to 18 December 2024 Group 3 from SSA had an onsite workshop within the Professional Certificate in Hearing Rehabilitation in Nairobi, Kenya. Rehabilitation specialists Johanna Reheis and Jayne Simpson led a three-day intensive training for speech therapists from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana.
Ear and Hearing Camp in rural Punjab
On 14 December 2024 a free of charge Ear and Hearing Support Camp was organized in Rural Health Centre, Village Muhammad Pura, District Nanaka Sahib, Punjab. This initiative had a goal to address the growing need for accessible ear and hearing care, as well as to raise awareness, provide comprehensive hearing assessments, and offer solutions to improve the quality of life for individuals with hearing challenges.
Pakistani Surgeons joined International Otology Workshop in Slovakia
Three ENT surgeons from Pakistan Mr. Raza Sayed Nusrat, Mr. Iqbal Mahid and Mr. Sohail Khan participated in the 8th International Otology Workshop with real temporal bones, which started in Vienna and then took place in Bratislava from 18 to 21 October 2024. The course was led by its director, a world-renown expert in Otorhinolaryngology and the head of the Bratislava Faculty Hospital, Pr. MUDr. Milan Profant. Other experienced international experts in the field also gave theoretical presentations and shared practical know-how with the participants.
Newborn Hearing Screening Workshop in Lahore
International newborn hearing screening expert Peter Böttcher from Path Medical held a two-day hands-on workshop on newborn hearing screening and tracking in Lahore on 25 and 26 November.