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.
Citation:Pillay, S.R., Ntetmen, J.M., & Nel, J.A. (2022). Queering global health: an urgent call for LGBT+ affirmative practices. The Lancet Global Health, 10(4), E574-E578. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00001-8
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