xvi, 174 p.
Authors
- Citation
- World Health Organization. Regional Office for Africa . (2024). Status report on ear and hearing care in the WHO African Region. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Africa. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/379147 . License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
- ISBN
- 9789290314080 (Web) 9789290314097 (Print)
- Pages
- 194
- Published in
- Switzerland
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
- Rights Holder
- World Health Organization
- Rights URI
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo
Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- List of figures 6
- Executive summary 15
- Introduction 19
- Introduction 20
- Survey results 23
- Survey results 24
- Top cause of disabling hearing Loss 2022 27
- Ear and hearing care workforce per million population 2022 37
- ENT doctors per million population 2022 39
- Audiologists per million population 2022 41
- Speech and language therapists per million population 2022 43
- Hearing aid technicians per million population 2022 45
- Any other cadre trained in EHC per million population 2022 47
- Discussion 57
- Discussion 58
- Country profiles 63
- Algeria 64
- Benin 66
- Burkina Faso 68
- Burundi 70
- Cabo Verde 72
- Cameroon 74
- Chad 78
- Comoros 80
- Congo 82
- Côte dIvoire 84
- Equatorial Guinea 88
- Eritrea 90
- Eswatini 92
- Ethiopia 94
- Gabon 96
- Gambia 98
- Ghana 100
- Guinea 102
- Guinea-Bissau 104
- Kenya 106
- Lesotho 108
- Liberia 110
- Madagascar 112
- Malawi 114
- Mali 116
- Mauritania 118
- Mauritius 120
- Mozambique 122
- Namibia 124
- Niger 126
- Nigeria 128
- Rwanda 130
- Senegal 132
- Seychelles 134
- Sierra Leone 136
- South Africa 138
- South Sudan 140
- Tanzania 142
- Uganda 144
- Zambia 146
- Zimbabwe 148
- Conclusions 151
- Conclusions and recommended actions 152
- References 155
- References 156
- Annexes 159
- Annex I Abbreviated situation analysis tool 160
- Annex II Member States of the WHO African Region 171
- Annex III List of country EHC stakeholders 173
