Abstract
Dear Editor, “It is the one who lives in the house who knows where the roof leaks” ~African Proverb. As a Global Surgery researcher in Rwanda, I have lived experience of the challenges to conference equity, having spent for example in one instance, 14 hours at an Embassy’s visa processing station to get to the World Health Assembly, and losing two opportunities to present at international Global Health meetings as a result of visa delays in the past one year. [...]
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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