Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director at the African Population and Health Research Center, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Because of the recently introduced US visa restrictions, we had to pay USD 30K as visa bonds for two Ugandan researchers to attend a conference.
Think about this for a moment!”
To which Madhukar Pai, Inaugural Chair, Department of Global and Public Health at McGill University, added:
“You can’t make this up
Every passing day, global north countries find new ways to make global health less equitable and reciprocal.”
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