World Hearing Day

Activities take place across the globe and an event is hosted at the World Health Organization in Geneva annually on March 3.

For 2025, the theme of the campaign is "Empower yourself" encouraging individuals to take steps to ensure good hearing in all stages of life.

The 2024 World Hearing Day campaign will concentrate on overcoming challenges posed by societal misperceptions and stigmatizing mindsets through awareness-raising and information-sharing targeted at the public and healthcare providers.

[4] Social misperceptions and stigmatizing mindsets are recognized as factors that hinder efforts to prevent and address hearing loss.

Wiki4WorldHearingDay2023 an edit-a-thon, was part of the 2023 activities of the campaign, to facilitate the contribution of hearing-related content into Wikipedia in several languages.

"[7] Key messages and information focused on the importance and means of preventing hearing loss from recreational sounds through safe listening.

The report's reach is global but includes a special focus on low- and middle-income countries, where the number of people with hearing loss is not matched by the availability of services and resources.

[9] The selection of the theme by the World Health Organization expresses the key message that timely and effective interventions can ensure that people with hearing loss are able to achieve their full potential.

It recognizes that, at all life stages, communication and good hearing health connect us to each other, our communities, and the world.

[13][14] A study performed in South Africa reported that individuals who experience hearing difficulties wait between 5 and 16 years to seek diagnosis and treatment.

which provided information on public health measures that could prevent significant percentage of cases of hearing loss in children.