Our mission
Preserve and restore hearing
#global impact
Deafness affects 1.5 billion people worldwide, 430 million of whom have reached the stage of disability requiring hearing aids1.
By 2040, 2.5 billion people will be affected1.
The World Health Organization estimates the societal impact of deafness at nearly $1,000 billion a year!
Issues
Sources:
1 World Health Organization
2 French Ministry of Health, Direction de la recherche, des études, de l'évaluation et des statistiques
3 Institut de veille sanitaire (InVS) et de l'Institut national de prévention et d'éducation pour la santé (Inpes)
4 Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
5 Choi, J. S., Adams, M. E., Crimmins, E. M., Lin, F. R., & Ailshire, J. A. (2024). Association between hearing aid use and mortality in adults with hearing loss in the USA: a mortality follow-up study of a cross-sectional cohort. The Lancet Healthy Longevity
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