Introduction The UK Government’s 2025 Spending Review has struck another blow to global health research. Beyond the reduction of the Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budget to 0.3% of Gross National Income, it has introduced a new prioritisation in what is funded: activities related to global health security and ODA contributions to multilateral institutions. This […]
Category: Disability
Equity at the intersection of tuberculosis and disability
One in seven people—more than one billion individuals worldwide—have some form of disability. One in four people, or 1.7 billion individuals, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the infectious agent that causes tuberculosis (TB). TB is a disease that causes visible and invisible disabilities, a disease whose treatment can cause disability, and a disease which disproportionately affects […]
Colonialism in speech-language pathology: Moving forward
How we communicate is one way through which we tell the world who we are. The vocabulary, syntax, and speech sounds we use tell others where we are from, our age, our gender, our socioeconomic background, and our cultural associations. The language learning process initiates us into our communities by implicitly teaching us the […]