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Out of Africa: Audiovannah audiology clinic in Zimbabwe

1 March 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Audiovannah reception area. In 2015 two Danish audiologists, Jenny Pedersen and Nicolai Pedersen, relocated to Zimbabwe and opened a full service audiology clinic (Audiovannah) in the capital city of Harare. The focus has been to give back as much as...

Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa

3 November 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT
Much has been said of the paucity of ENT and its related services in low- and middle-income countries. This article from a retired paediatric otolaryngologist discusses the progress that has been made locally to redress these health inequalities. He has...

IFOS activities

1 September 2018 | | ENT
International collaboration is more important than ever, and we hear from Prof Milan Profant about a collaboration that grew out of the very successful IFOS meeting in Paris in 2017. IFOS has developed a new philosophy regarding how to organise...

Clinical leadership and management: developing world ENT

1 September 2014 | | ENT
I have been asked to share some of the initiatives I have been involved with to address ENT-related challenges in Africa and the developing world. Developing countries constitute the majority of the world’s landmass (Figure 1), are home to >50%...

Spotlight on Africa: paediatric ENT focus

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries 24% of the global disease burden but employs only 3% of the world’s health workers [1]. Unique workforce considerations exist in SSA including a paucity of skilled health professionals and fluctuant political climates [1,2]. Shazia Peer...

World Course on Hearing Rehabilitation and 5th Temporal Bone Course

25 April 2022 -29 April 2022
The COVID 19-pandemic halted a number of activities around the world. We were unable to meet physically to discuss and plan ways to address matters pertaining to global hearing health. This year, the Zimbabwe Society of Otorhinolaryngologists (ZiSOL) in conjunction...

Otology training in low- and middle-income countries: a view from within

5 July 2022 | | ENT, Otology
It is recognised that hearing loss and ear disease are far more common in less affluent parts of the world, and that those countries are often least able to provide treatment; so how can we prioritise care for these patients?...

Public health planning for hearing impairment (2017)

1 November 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
In 2009 Professor Andrew Smith and Dr Daksha Patel identified the need for awareness of public health methods in hearing healthcare planning. In 2010 the first training course was held, and since then 760 health workers from 41 countries have...

Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa (Part 2)

6 January 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT
In the last issue of ENT & Audiology News, we heard from retired Professor Christopher Prescott on the challenges faced and progress made made locally to address the inequity and inequality of access to ENT and allied health professional services...

COVID-19: UCT-Africa Virtual ENT transcends academic silos

9 September 2020 | | ENT
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global catastrophe with far-reaching consequences felt across many fronts around the world. One such aspect is the training of the future generation of ENT surgeons. With routine elective activity curtailed, academic conferences cancelled, and...

Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment (2022)

2 March 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
The World Report on Hearing, published in 2021 by the WHO reports that 430 million people in the world have moderate or worse hearing loss, all of whom require rehabilitation [1]. Over 1.5 billion have any degree of hearing loss....