Every year roughly 100,000 hearing-impaired babies are born in India, yet the country lacks a universal screening programs to identify hearing loss. India isn’t alone in facing this problem, the majority of those with hearing loss live in low- or middle-income countries.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/06/24/one-woman-strives-to-tackle-newborn-hearing-loss-in-the-developing-world/