Pamoja Communications
@pamoja.bsky.social
Health, gender and international development with a focus on communications and research uptake.
Celebrate Collage Month is October! Want to collaborate? We have a free zine with cut-up pages, starter collages, and more. If you create something let us know, let the artist whose page you used know. Zine available here: twincitiescollagecollective.com/celebrate-co...
Read our report on this year's International Creative Research Methods Conference (#ICRMC26) and find out what they can bring to health systems strengthening. healthsystemsglobal.org/news/the-pot...
This is great writing. A long read on corruption in Sierra Leone www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state
Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine
theguardian.com
Using AI to write a peer review breaks confidentiality, accountability, and IP protection in one action. ~21% of ICLR 2025 reviews were AI-generated. Authors are now embedding prompt injections to game it. This editorial makes the case for why reviewers must stop: tinyurl.com/mwuru7yu #SciComms
Zambia will sign a revised health agreement with the United States that will not include contentious clauses committing the African nation to share patient health data and specimens with the U.S. government apnews.com/article/zamb...
Zambia will sign $3.6 billion health plan with US that won't require sharing of patient data
Zambia plans to sign a revised health agreement with the United States that excludes controversial clauses about sharing patient data and specimens.
apnews.com
Who controls how global health imagery is created, framed and circulated? This paper draws on voices from photographers, NGOs and young people in Khayelitsha to examine what ethical representation actually requires. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/equ...
Visa restrictions aren't a bureaucratic inconvenience, they're a structural determinant of global health. This opinion piece argues they shape who leads, whose expertise travels, and whether localisation means anything at all. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/vis... #GlobalHealth
In a close-knit island nation of about 930,000 people, an estimated 9,100 are now living with HIV. More than 42% of new infections in 2025 were due to sharing contaminated needles or equipment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘Children are dying’: Fiji hopes declaring an HIV emergency will help it tackle crisis
One in 60 adults Fiji lives with HIV but a recent emergency declaration may help address key issues such as syringe sharing
theguardian.com
At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women's organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse news.un.org/en/story/202...
Aid cuts leave at least one million women and girls without vital support
At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women's organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse,...
news.un.org
Global health systems are built on assumptions of relatively unrestricted mobility that no longer hold. The cumulative effects of visa restrictions on who participates, who decides, and whose expertise travels are insufficiently examined in global health governance journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Visa restrictions: A structural determinant of global health that must be confronted head-on
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Uneasy moments in fieldwork aren't just unfortunate by-products, they're data. This paper by two female migrant researchers examines how intersectional power shapes research encounters, and proposes dialogical reflection as both method and ethical safeguard. tinyurl.com/ymvauejd #ResearchEthics
Returning the gaze: Using art to transform representations of people with albinism www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/retu...
Returning the gaze
Using art to transform representations of people with albinism
disabilitydebrief.org
Amid broadening cuts to funding for development aid, programmes addressing gender inequality are amongst the hardest hit, with such funding falling to its lowest level since 2021. news.un.org/en/story/202...
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals
At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built to advance gains are being defunded and demobilised.
news.un.org
Reform and Restore won't be happy until there's footage of drowning migrants daily on peak time TV. They are insatiable. The main parties need to confront and not indulge them.
The question, then, is why would UK authorities want to stop disabled people going abroad? If it’s not just about tight budgets, why should it matter to them how an adult chooses to use their care package? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
An effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances Ryan
This scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
theguardian.com
Grace Tobin (British, b. 1993) Reflection, 2018 reduction woodcut
In Devonshire goldenrod is called ‘farewell-to-summer’ because it blooms from August through September. It is said to grow where secret hoards of gold are hidden, and if it unexpectedly appears near a dwelling, then the inhabitants will surely have good fortune. #FlowersOnFriday
The UK has its own unresolved equivalent in the Windrush generation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini
In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini
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On the urgent need for wealth redistribution www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
theguardian.com
NEW 📚. Participatory research projects don't end when funding does. This paper introduces three concepts - entangled temporalities, endy moments, and afterlives - to help researchers think through endings more carefully and ethically. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/end... #SciComms
Paul Klee (1879-1940) Herbstblumen Stilleben (Still Life with Autumn Flowers) 1925. Watercolour and oil on paper.
And the question remains, when this occurs what is the process for putting things right? There is no transparency and no recourse to justice when harm is committed.
Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · last mo.⚠️ Good example of how AI manufactures & legitimizes BS The cycle: 1) AI hallucinates reference 2) Report placed on gov website 3) Report indexed 4) AI now thinks ref real ‘Scary’: how AI misinformation hallucinations are infiltrating www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🚨 Needed: ref vigilance!
I remember a time when we'd get notice of a software update. Usually distributed on a diskette. Excitment! What new cool stuff will we get. Nowadays I dread updates. What new nonsense will they force on us? What settings walked on? What nefarious new surveillance will be embedded?
Opting out of the algorithm would be a game changer. Now go for a ban on the infinite scroll and we might be getting somewhere! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms
Draft legislation enforces digital duty of care including limiting children’s exposure to misogynistic and eating disorder content
theguardian.com
NEW ETHICS RESOURCE 📚. AI adoption in academic publishing is growing fastest among researchers facing the greatest structural disadvantage, and it's not removing the bias they encounter. Reviewers have simply adapted. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/ai-... #scicomms
We are so excited for next week's Creative Methods conference in Manchester, UK. We will demonstrate how we have used photography, animation, film and collage in our work on health. Please do come and say hello! #ICRMC2026 #CreativeResearchMethods @drhelenkara.bsky.social
Just under 5 weeks to go until #ICRMC26 comes to Manchester (and online)! We're looking forward to two days of creative thinking, fresh ideas, and great conversations. If you haven't booked yet, there's still time: www.creativeresearchmethods.com #CreativeResearchMethods #AcademicSky
Creative Research Methods Conference 2026
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
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