In rural Malawi, money is constantly circulating. As soon as villagers get money in their hands, they quickly spend it, despite their extreme poverty. In her recently published ethnographic paper, Managing Meagre Means and Reciprocal Reputations: Women’s Everyday Survival Tactics in a Malawian Village, dr. Janneke...
A unique pilot project demonstrated remote monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa may be an effective approach to helping patients better manage their high blood pressure. The OMRON Healthcare project piloted a care model in Nigeria where remote monitoring was implemented and tested for patients with high blood...
A comprehensive review on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in low and middle-income countries was recently published in The Lancet HIV. Antimicrobial drug resistance is an increasing problem with respect to treatment of common infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, bacterial infections and HIV. The most recent WHO progress...
It was a historical week for tuberculosis science, advocacy and research and it happened right here in the Netherlands. The Union World Conference on Lung Health was held in The Hague from October 24-27. More than 4,000 scientists, advocates, policy makers, health care providers and politicians...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development (AIGHD) shares in celebrating a wonderful accomplishment by one of our PhD students: Dr. Zlata Tanovic successfully defended her thesis. The thesis defense ceremony took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at the Aula – VU University Amsterdam. A celebration...
Collaboration is the key to taking on the world’s deadliest infectious disease. That’s the approach of the new Amsterdam TuBerculosis Center (TBC), launched this week by the Amsterdam UMC. The Amsterdam TBC is a collaboration of senior scientists with expertise across the tuberculosis (TB) spectrum including experimental...
A new study suggests that commonly-used risk algorithms are helpful tools in identifying how likely someone living with HIV is to develop cardiovascular disease. Rosan van Zoest, PhD candidate with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, recently presented her study which evaluated and compared...
As the expression goes, knowledge is power and that's exactly what the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) team intends to share with colleagues at an upcoming conference. The HIV Research for Prevention (HIV R4P 2018) is the only global scientific conference focused exclusively...
Individuals who engage in high-risk sexual behavior can impact their body’s immune system, according to a recent, AIGHD-led study. As part of the immune system, T-cells play an important role in helping ward off infections. It has been shown in prior research that people living with...
In countries with high HIV prevalence rates, women with low bargaining power struggle to convince partners to have protected sex. The introduction of female condoms, which are more acceptable to men, helps these women to successfully negotiate protected sex with their partners. This benefit of...