Session: The Digital World – Protecting our Health & Wellbeing through Apps and Digital Platforms
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: 0.6 - Keurzaal
Track: Health & Wellbeing
Description
Digital platforms can improve LGBTQI+ health and wellbeing, from algorithmic influence to community-led innovation. This session features PlaySafe, TestXXX, RITA (Report IT Always), and Grindr for Equality, exploring how digital spaces can restore informed consent, drive HIV prevention and rights monitoring through frameworks like CODE Strategies, make unsafety visible via the Report IT Always campaign, and build trusted sexual health tools. Speakers share insights on e-prevention, community co-designed solutions for PrEP and testing, performance-based reporting, and user-centered design based on 18,000 community members’ needs to create safer digital environments.