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
The aim of this paper, developed by STOPAIDS, Aidsfonds, Civil Society Sustainability Network and Frontline AIDS, is to serve as a catalyst for discussion within civil society on how the global health architecture of the Universal Health Coverage era should evolve and how it should be governed drawing on lessons from the global HIV response. … Continued
Since we first started in 1986, STOPAIDS has advocated for a human rights-based approach to ending AIDS. We have particularly focused on promoting the human rights of key population groups who are disproportionately impacted by HIV – including sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people and people who use drugs. In this … Continued
A report by RESULTS and STOPAIDS on the principles of a sustainable and successful transition from external donor funding. Transition before a national government and other key stakeholders are ready, willing, committed and able to take over development programmes can lead to gaps in critical services for people and often the reversal of hard won … Continued
This paper explains the interconnections between certain Sustainable Development Goal targets, human rights laws, and HIV. Ending AIDS is now part of a broader health goal within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Those who are committed to ending the AIDS epidemic realise that a purely medical response is not effective. The AIDS response must also … Continued
This report aims to set out a vision for a health innovation model that is driven by public health need and delivers products at prices that patients and health systems can afford. The report presents a thorough analysis of the way biomedical research and development (R&D) is currently conducted, highlighting how market-driven agendas and public … Continued
In this joint report, STOPAIDS and Global Justice Now show how taxpayers are funding billions of pounds worth of research into life-changing drugs – only to be told they are too expensive when they need them. High medicine prices are a serious challenge for the NHS and patients globally, with many new treatments priced so … Continued
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
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
Entitled “Increasing DFID’s contribution to Addressing HIV among key populations” and building on our earlier critique of DFID’s position paper on HIV and AIDS, the report makes a series of recommendations about how STOPAIDS members believe DFID can work more effectively to advance the rights of communities who are disproportionately affected by AIDS, notably men who … Continued