Putting People and Human Rights First in Digital Health: Checklist 

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.

The toolkit includes a checklist to help practitioners tackle six critical challenges facing individuals and communities when using digital technologies and AI for health: accessibility, literacy and empowerment, safety and efficacy, privacy, access to justice, and participation. It also includes guiding questions for implementers and donors to consider during the design, implementation, and evaluation of digital health programmes to address key challenges to human rights.

The resource has been created by STOPAIDS in response to growing concerns that digital and AI-based technologies in healthcare are progressing more rapidly than the protections in place for human rights, as part of global partnership initiative the Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP).