The WHO estimates that 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to avoidable environmental causes. As a result, there is growing urgency to create sustainable, well-being societies that are focused on creating equitable health that is maintainable for future generations without breaking...
Today, 24 March, marks World TB Day, an annual day that commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. This year’s theme is “Invest in TB. Save Lives.” This theme is meant to convey...
Today, March 8th is celebrated globally as International Women’s Day. It is a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality in areas where it has not yet been achieved....
AIGHD Director, Prof. Frank Cobelens, and colleagues publish review in the Lancet Infectious Disease insisting on the acceleration of research and development for a vaccine against Tuberculosis. For centuries, tuberculosis (TB) has infected 10 million people annually and been the leading cause of death around...
The PAVIA project, led by Prof. Frank Cobelens, was recently featured in a publication of the Uppsala Reports highlighting the evolution of the project since its beginning within the Kingdom of Eswatini. Funded by the European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), PAVIA focuses on improving...
AIGHD research fellow, Tobias Rinke de Wit, participated in an event 22 February on how evolutionary medicine helps explain regional differences in pandemic dynamics: immunity, symbiosis, and COVID-19. Data has been mounting for more than 50 years pointing toward the importance of “complex eukaryotic symbionts” in...
A new study looking at the presence of pharmaceuticals in the world’s rivers found concentrations at potentially toxic levels in more than a quarter of the locations studied. The new study looked at 258 rivers across the globe, including the Thames in London and the Amazon...
A recent systematic analysis of the global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance published in The Lancet last week shows that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world, with the largest burden in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The study includes...
Partners of AMR-Global have been awarded funding to carry out a research program on antimicrobial resistance. The collaboration is co-funded by the PPP Allowance made available by Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, to stimulate public-private partnerships. The program is titled “AMR-Global: Reducing inappropriate...
Just last month, PhD Fellow for the AGEhIV Cohort Study, Myrthe Verburgh, had a paper accepted into the Journal of Infectious Diseases on SARS-CoV-2 incidence in the AGEhIV Cohort. The study concluded that there was a similar risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among both HIV-positive and...