World Hearing Day is an annual global advocacy event for raising awareness regarding hearing loss and promoting ear and hearing care, and calling for action to address hearing loss and related issues. Each year, this event is celebrated on 3 March, covering a specific theme on which the World Health Organization and its partners carry out activities based on this theme.
This site is in support of World Hearing Day. On this site, you can register World Hearing Day event with the World Health Organization and report on your activities after March 3rd, 2026. In addition, you will find information on the events, promotional, and educational materials for World Hearing Day, including a repository of translated materials.
Get ready to make a difference! ? World Hearing Day 2026 is just around the corner, and this year’s theme is all about:
This year, WHD highlights the theme “From communities to classroms: hearing care for all children.”
The campaign focuses on two imperatives:
- Preventing avoidable childhood hearing loss
Ensuring early identification of and care for children with ear or hearing problems - Schools and communities are natural entry points to reach children, parents, and teachers. By integrating hearing care into school health and child health programmes, we can help children hear, learn, and succeed.
Key messages for 2026:
- Around 90 million children aged 5-19 years, live with hearing loss
- Over 60% of childhood hearing loss is preventable through simple, cost-effective public health measures.
- Among those living with ear diseases or hearing loss, early identification and care are crucial to prevent long-term impacts on development, education, and future opportunities.
- Integrating systematic screening and early intervention programmes into school health and child health plans can ensure improved outcomes for children living with ear or hearing problems.lth throughout life.
Join Us! Empower yourself and others by participating in World Hearing Day 2026 events.
Please follow this link to the WHO site specific to this 2026
- Key messages
- Call for actions
- Communication objectives
- WHO technical tools
- Integrating childhood hearing screening
- Prevention of hearing loss and ear care
- Assessing impact using tracer indicator
- Target audience
- Related resources
In the next month we will provide links to translation of promotional materials and resource materials. We will also provide tools to register your anticipated and completed events.
Site description:
- Home page – you are here
- Pre Register your anticipated event with the World Health Organization. Registration is now closed.
- We offer real-time Infographics about locations and plans. See multiple formats under the “Planned Events” tab above.
- Report on your Activities. Used to report your actual event. This just opened. It is also possible to edit your events
- User Registration and User Login – or even Reset Password – help us remember you to facilitate reporting your outcomes and make next year easier.
- News – current activities and commentary.
- Promotional materials – to help you implement a World Hearing Day project – or just to advertise the global event. We provided translations in 41 languages this year
- Contact – send us a quick note for advice.
- Search – At the top right of each page; you will find a search box that looks at the whole site. This includes terms that may be hidden in resource files
Member States, partners and stakeholders in the field are encouraged to organize events to raise awareness in communities, in order to address misconceptions around ear and hearing care and ensure accessible ear and hearing care.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2025 Report on Activity is available here.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2024 Report on Activity is available here.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2023 Report on Activity is available here.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2022 Report on Activity is available here.
Please follow this link from the past for an important video message about World Hearing Day and broader hearing issues from the Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He announced the WHO’s Primary Ear and Hearing Care Manual, which was released on March 3rd, 2023