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Terry Collins Assoc

Hearing Loss

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More than 360 million people, about 10 percent of them children, are unable to understand speech in most contexts due to hearing loss. Most people disabled by hearing loss live in low- and middle-income countries, where audiologists are rare and help inaccessible due to distance and the cost of hearing aids.

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Grand Challenges Canada

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