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Why Removing Language Barriers is an Opportunity for Equity in Global Health - Speaking of Medicine and Health

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When you choose to publish with PLOS, your research makes an impact. Make your work accessible to all, without restrictions, and accelerate scientific discovery with options like preprints and published peer review that make your work more Open. By guest contributor Yap Boum II During the Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) held in Kigali, Rwanda in early March 2019, we organized a French-language discussion workshop with participants from six African countries where French is an official language. They shared their experiences on the impact of language barriers on global health. They spoke of the challenges they faced due to the dominance of the English language in scientific discourse. These challenges included linguistic isolation and a double exclusion. First, French-speaking researchers struggle to publish in English, and second, once published, their work is accessible only to a minority. The supremacy of English-language publications and the exponential increas

By guest contributor Yap Boum II During the Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) held in Kigali, Rwanda in early March 2019, we organized a French-language discussion workshop with participants from six African countries where French is an official language. They shared their experiences on the impact of language barriers on global health. They spoke of the challenges they faced due to the dominance of the English language in scientific discourse. These challenges included linguistic isolation and a double exclusion. First, French-speaking researchers struggle to publish in En

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