Progress towards early detection services for infants with hearing loss in developing countries

Bolajoko O Olusanya¹ , De Wet Swanepoel² , Mônica J Chapchap³ , Salvador Castillo⁴ , Hamed Habib⁵ , Siti Z Mukari⁶ , Norberto V Martinez⁷ , Hung-Ching Lin⁸ and Bradley McPherson⁹

¹  Institute of Child Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

²  Department of Communication Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

³  Hospital Sao Luiz, Sao Paulo, Brazil

⁴  Audiology and Phoniatrics Department, México Children's Hospital, 'Federico Gómez" Dr. Márquez 162, Colonia Doctores, 06726 México City, Mexico

⁵  Pediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

⁶  Department of Audiology & Speech Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

⁷  Better Hearing Institute, Manila, Philippines

⁸  Department of Otolaryngology, Hearing and Speech Centre, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

⁹  Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China