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A Democracy Deficit in Digital Health? January 2020

Today, new technologies are rapidly reshaping how we access health information, find health facilities, and how health care providers diagnose and treat patients. These new technologies offer exciting opportunities, but also risk rolling back the fragile gains in human rights, by sharing and commodifying our most intimate health and behavioral information, and by leaving vulnerable … Continued

Italy’s WHO resolution: Improving the transparency of markets for drugs, vaccines and other health-related technologies

UK civil society letter to the UK government strongly opposing the amendments presented to the World Health Assembly transparency resolution. “We, the undersigned UK based civil society organisations and patient organisations, strongly oppose the proposals made by the UK Government and several countries at the May 7, 2019 informal on the World Health Assembly (WHA) … Continued