“I look back when talking to my children and realize that collaboration was a turning point in my life. I’ve been blessed to work with top-notch scientists including the late Dr. Joep Lange. You know, the best of the best. Nothing takes that away. Those...
INTEREST 2020 Joep Lange Award winner, Dr. Joseph Baruch Baluku, recently published an editorial recapping INTEREST 2021 while simultaneously providing insight on the ongoing fight against HIV in Africa. The editorial was published in Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease. The full editorial can be found...
For the third year, AIGHD and the Joep Lange Institute (JLI) successfully organized the annual Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Masterclass. The class is comprised of late-stage PhD students and early-stage researchers led by Masters in global health from around the world. After submitting their...
AIGHD research fellow, Pascale Ondoa, was profiled in last weeks issue of The Lancet. Pascale is a viro-immunologist with experience in the field of HIV. She is currently the director of Science and New Initiatives at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM). “Our core aim...
Today marks the end of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week organized by the WHO. The 2021 theme, Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance, calls on One Health stakeholders, policymakers, health care providers, and the general public to be Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness champions. While the world has been captivated by the COVID-19 pandemic...
The Eastern Europe and Central Asia INTERACT Workshop will take place next Thursday, 11 November. This is the second workshop in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region on HIV, tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis C, harm reduction and sexual and reproductive health, returning this time virtually...
Earlier this month, during The 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, former AIGHD PhD fellow, Dr. Alberto Garcia-Basteiro was awarded the honourable Steven Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize. The Stephen Lawn Memorial Fund was established in 2016 through a global partnership between the TB Centre of the London School...
I remember Joep as a champion dedicated to access to quality care and related issues. He was deeply concerned with the vulnerable. What is happening today would deeply hurt him. No doubt about it. Access to vaccines is a human rights issue. Joep would have...
Next week is the 15th annual INTEREST Conference―the premier scientific conference for HIV Africa! Now is your last chance to register for this exciting event from 12-14 October. Just like the conference held in December of 2020, this year’s event will be virtual due to...
EGHRIN (The European Global Health Research Institutes Network) is proud to host a satellite event during the Tenth EDCTP Forum from 17-21 October 2021, where the theme will be ‘Equity in research for health’. AIGHD is the secretariat of EGHRIN and will be co-organizing the event. Global public health research...