World Hearing Day 2025 (3 March)
Changing mindsets: Empower yourself to make ear and hearing care a reality for all!
You can take steps today to ensure good hearing health throughout life.
This year’s theme builds upon the 2024 focus on changing mindsets towards ear and hearing care. We invite individuals of all ages to empower themselves to ensure healthy ears and hearing for themselves and others, with the theme, "Changing mindsets: empower yourself to make ear and hearing care a reality for all!"
By encouraging individuals to recognize the importance of ear and hearing health, this campaign aims to inspire them to change behaviour to protect their hearing from loud sounds and prevent hearing loss, check their hearing regularly, use hearing devices if needed, and support those living with hearing loss. Empowered individuals can drive change within themselves and in society at large.
World Hearing Day 2025 will marked the launch of:
WHO-ITU Global standard for safe listening in video game play and sports
This standard supports WHO’s Make Listening Safe initiative, by aiming to improve listening practices for young people during video gameplay and...
Other technical products to promote:
Safe listening devices and systems: a WHO-ITU standard
The standard supports WHO’s Make Listening Safe initiative which seeks to improve listening practices in particular for young people, both when they...
WHO estimates that over one billion young people globally are at risk of hearing loss due to sound exposure in recreational settings. The risk of permanent...
The mSafeListening handbook provides evidence-based message libraries for the promotion of safe listening behaviours and prevention of hearing loss. It...
Be he@lthy, be mobile: a handbook on how to implement mSafeListening. Web annex mSafeListening message...
This document provides a library of messages for use in hearing loss awareness/education/prevention mHealth programmes. These messages have been crafted...
Target audience
- School children
- Gaming enthusiasts
- Adolescents and young adults
- People with hearing loss
- Parents
- Teachers
- Older adults
Communication objectives
Increase public awareness about the importance of ear and hearing care as integral to overall health and well-being, reducing stigma associated with hearing loss.
Enable individuals of all ages to take concrete actions, such as regular hearing check-ups, the use of hearing protection and use of hearing technology, if advised.
Encourage individuals to promote ear and hearing care among their peers.
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Events
World Hearing Day 2025 is an opportunity for all of us to make a difference. As stakeholders, partners, and advocates, we can collectively empower ourselves and others.
Empower yourself to make ear and hearing care a reality for all!
Member States, partners and stakeholders are encouraged to organize events to raise awareness in communities, and to ensure accessible ear and hearing care.
Kindly register your World Hearing Day 2025 events to get global visibility. Your event information will be made available to a wider global audience.
Related resources
World Hearing Day 2024 Report of Activity
World Hearing Day is an annual global advocacy event for raising awareness regarding hearing loss and promoting ear and hearing care and calling...
World Hearing Day Planning Guide 2025
This guide provides a basic and practical framework for any person or organization interested in observing World Hearing Day to raise awareness and promote...
Hearing loss and the role of health care providers: fact sheet
Hearing screening, ear examination and basic ear and hearing care interventions can be provided by trained non-specialist health care providers in clinical...
