Queering global health: an urgent call for LGBT+ affirmative practices
Ntetmen, Joachim, M.; Pillay, Suntosh; Nel, Juan A
This Viewpoint was submitted in response to the call for papers on the theme “What is wrong with global health?”.
We answer the question simply: global health under-represents the experiences of LGBT+ people. Queer contexts are
missing from the pages of this journal—a strange exclusion given the journal’s commitment to diversity and inclusion
of marginalised voices. Indeed, there is a general neglect within global health scholarship of the intersection between
health inequities and LGBT+ populations in low-income and middle-income countries in Africa. This Viewpoint
discusses the utility of LGBT-affirmative scholarship developed in South Africa, and its use and application in Nigeria
and Cameroon.
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