A young man testing their hearing with SHOEBOX QuickTest

Empowering Hearing Outreach with SHOEBOX: When Care Goes to the People

Audiology and ENT Clinics, Hearing Services, Hearing Services Case Studies, Humanitarian

Imagine living in a place where hearing care isn’t just hard to access—it simply doesn’t exist. For many of the 1.5 billion people worldwide with hearing loss, this isn’t a distant concern: it’s a daily reality. According to the World Health Organization’s 2021 World Report on Hearing, over 430 million people require hearing rehabilitation, yet most still go without, especially in low- and middle-income regions (WHO, 2021). SHOEBOX is changing this by redefining how hearing care is delivered. Our software-based tools break down barriers, turning virtually any setting into a place where hearing health can be confidently addressed.

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MDR TB Clinical Trials

Partnering with The Union and Vital Strategies to Include SHOEBOX Audiometry in Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis Clinical Trials

Hearing Services, Hearing Services Case Studies

I’m on a short plane ride home reflecting on my last few days spent with The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and its affiliate Vital Strategies. Together they have been working on a Phase III Clinical Trial to test simpler and shorter treatment regimes for patients suffering from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

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