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Cochlear Implant International Community of Action (CIICA) is an exciting new global community of cochlear implant user and family advocacy groups and individuals who support a shared vision of closing the global gap in cochlear implant provision and ensuring lifelong support for all who benefit.
CIICA's Goals
To increase the number of people globally who have access to cochlear implants and lifelong support by:
- Raising the international global awareness of the health, social and economic benefits of cochlear implants for those who could benefit from implantation, health care practitioners and wider society.
- Empowering user led advocacy and awareness raising activity to influence governments and health funders to invest in addressing the under provision of CIs and other implantable technologies, related habilitation, aftercare, and upgrades.
- Supporting CI advocates with the tools they need to achieve change.
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