CIICA CONVERSATION: PARENTS VIEWS IN LMIC; FINANCE

Raising awareness of CI for children and infants in Low and Middle Income Countries  

Parents from LMIC – their  views on financial issues

May 20th at 5pm UK/6pm CET;/9:30pm IST/11am EST/12pm EDT

Our recent series of CIICA Conversations focused on strengthening access to CIs and related CI services for Infants and Children in Low and Middle Income Countries. These discussions shed light on a critical need to raise awareness for the successes and challenges that families face on the CI pathway. Please visit  www.ciicanet.org/events to read the meeting summaries.

The group that has been driving the Conversations are facilitating this effort by collecting stories, sharing them and reporting on the challenges and successes so that we can all learn from them. The stories highlight challenges and successes in accessing and using CIs and corresponding services for their children as part of Ear and Hearing Care.

 

 

 

 

CIICA are currently collating all the stories and will write a report on the topics that arise in these stories from parents/legal guardians. See NEW RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: PARENTS’ VOICES IN LMIC – CIICA  for more information.

We currently have 69 stories from 19 countries: Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Panama, Paraguay, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam. On World Hearing Day we shared some quotes from these, and  now we work on preparing them to be shared on the website. 

This CIICA Conversation invites all who are interested to join us to discuss the project, learn about the issues which are emerging, particularly with regard to finance of CI and CI services. What are the challenges, and how are they being addressed?

The Conversation will be for one hour, with captioning in English and other languages by request.

To register go to : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Zo5380GFRlq9MGhLre2o5w