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This Checklist for Assessing Gender, Equity and Rights Inclusion in Developing Digital Health Strategies is a practical tool developed to encourage reflection and debate among officials, consultants, civil society and other stakeholders to ensure digital health strategies advance human rights, gender equality and inclusion approaches to the adoption and management of digital health technologies. It includes a list of UN guidance and other resources to help inform the strategy development process.

• Digital Health
• Gender inequality
• Human Rights
• Global

Co-created with over 300 young adults from rural, urban and peri-urban Kenya, Ghana, Vietnam and Colombia, this research report shares insights into how marginalised young adults are paying the costs of connecting to health online.

• Digital Rights
• Digital Health
• Internet Access
• Technology-facilitated abuse
• Gender inequality
• Digital Empowerment
• Colombia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Vietnam
• Global

This report summarises discussions at a workshop held at Fondation Brocher, Hermance, Switzerland in January 2023. The workshop gave our consortium a chance to step back, reflect on our first studies, and discuss learning from experience in 2021-22.

• Human Rights
• Digital Health
• Advocacy
• Global

This article from BMJ Global Health argues that new digital health strategies and policies have not benefited from public awareness and input. It proposes participatory approaches to address these inequalities and promote rights-based digital governance.

• Digital Rights
• Digital Health
• Young Adults
• Participatory Action Research
• Global

This essay draws on the HIV response to critically engage with recent literature on the digital determinants of health, proposing an approach to analyzing broader political determinants of health, including commercial determinants of health, and other laws, policies, governance, and civic engagement relevant to digital health strategies. By rendering visible the role of politics, governance, and civic engagement in digital health, strategies can be tools to mobilize broad collaborations and advocacy that creates an enabling environment.

• Digital Rights
• Strategy
• Digital Health
• Digital Governance
• Global

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) is approaching a new grant cycle. Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) will run for three years between 2026-2028 and there are a number of key ways that communities and civil society can input into the process. The purpose of this guide, produced by STOPAIDS and DHRP is to support communities and civil society in navigating digital health rights in GC8 documents and processes.

• Human Rights
• Digital Health
• Advocacy
• Global

Putting People and Human Rights First in Digital Health is a practical tool to uphold and advance human rights within health programmes using digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). Designed to help implementers, communities, funders, and civil society in protecting and promoting human rights within digital health interventions, the resource is freely available on the STOPAIDS website.

• Digital Health
• Digital Rights
• Funders
• Implementers
• Global

Digital technologies are transforming the global health landscape, presenting both opportunities and risks to human rights, especially for historically marginalised populations. While digital tools can improve access to health information and services, reduce stigma, and increase autonomy, digital platforms also present risks, including inequitable access to technology, resulting in digital divides and exacerbating existing societal inequalities. Lack of effective governance and regulation of digital technologies has also led to a lack of protection for users.

• Digital Empowerment
• Digital Governance
• Digital Future
• Global