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...
The Aids Therapy Evaluation in the Netherlands cohort (ATHENA) is celebrating an important milestone: its 20th anniversary. The cohort started in 1998 as a three-year project and has undergone two decades of developments that have had significant impact for those involved including people living with HIV, HIV...
A research project which analyses how policies can improve student learning in Indonesia has reached an important milestone: the first working paper has been published. The Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) Indonesia research project focuses on how teacher reforms can improve learning in a...
Since the start of the HIV epidemic, prevention, treatment and care have come a long way - but there's still work to be done. HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) is on the rise, which is the ability of the virus to mutate and become resistant to the...
As the expression goes, you can take the woman out of the tropics, but you can’t take the passion for the tropics out of the woman. Internal Medicine Prof. Michèle van Vugt is proof. On September 28, 2018, she delivered her inaugural lecture at the Aula...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Health[e]Foundation and the Amsterdam UMC are pleased to host a global health symposium focused on vaccinations. Registration is free and open until December 10. After clean water, vaccination is the most effective public health intervention in the world that saves...
The latest figures released today by Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) for 2017 reveal a reduction in both HIV diagnoses and the estimated number of newly-acquired HIV infections in the Netherlands. In 2017, fewer people were diagnosed with HIV (750) than in 2016 (820). The figures, published...
Intern David van Melle is investigating the global problem of antibiotic resistance by engaging an important population: the very patients who are resistant to the drugs. David, a third-year Master’s of Medicine student at the Amsterdam UMC, is completing his scientific internship at the Amsterdam Institute...
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...
For the first time, the 13th annual INTEREST Conference will be held in Ghana. The conference co-chairs are pleased to announce the event will take place in Accra from May 14-17, 2019. Registration has also officially opened. This year’s co-chairs are Professor Kwasi Torpey (Local Chair),...