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Towards Digital Justice: Participatory action research in global digital health, April 2022

In April, BMJ published an article STOPAIDS collaborated on with the Digital Health and Rights consortium[1] outlining their project of developing participatory action research in global digital health. COVID-19 has accelerated the financialisation of digital health and a deepening digital divide. Companies in high-income countries have benefitted during the Pandemic; Big Tech in high-income countries (HIC) mine … Continued

An international pandemic treaty must centre on human rights, May 2021

The proposed International Pandemic Treaty could be undermined by political posturing and national protectionism—or it could be an opportunity to chart a different global future based on human rights. Those in charge of drafting the treaty must begin with a clear look at the grave abuses that have characterized the covid-19 pandemic: authoritarian power grabs; … Continued

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

A Stocktake Review of DFID’s Work on HIV and AIDS – Executive Summary

STOPAIDS has carried out a civil society review of The Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) work on HIV and AIDS. The report assesses DFID’s financial, programmatic and political commitment to the global HIV response. It also makes recommendations for how DFID can increase commitment to the global response to HIV as we work towards the … Continued

Featured A Stocktake Review of DFID’s Work on HIV and AIDS

STOPAIDS has carried out a civil society review of The Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) work on HIV and AIDS. The report assesses DFID’s financial, programmatic and political commitment to the global HIV response. It also makes recommendations for how DFID can increase commitment to the global response to HIV as we work towards the … Continued