Nigeria's national paper, THE NATION, reported today on AIGHD's "OMRON Connect Project & Evaluation Study". Experts in public health have demonstrated that pharmacy-based treatment of hypertension is possible. The Centre for Epidemiology and Health Development (CEHD), Lagos in collaboration with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and...
Congratulations to AIGHD's Alberto Garcia-Basteiro (PHD student at the Academic Medical Center's Department of Global Health, also affiliated with CISM in Manhica, Mozambique and ISGlobal in Barcelona) who is the recipient of The Union Young Investigator Prize. The prize is awarded each year by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease at its Union World...
Er rust nog steeds een taboe op het hebben van hiv. Terwijl er tegenwoordig juist goed met hiv te leven is, mits je je laat behandelen. Sterker nog, bij succesvolle behandeling is hiv niet meer overdraagbaar! Daarom brengt het H-TEAM (HIV Transmission Elimination Amsterdam), samen...
(Left to right): Front row: Prof. Mary Story (DGHI), Prof. Randy Kramer (DGHI), Guus ten Asbroek (AMC-DGH), Prof. Truls Ostbye (DGHI). Back row: Sarah Cao (DGHI), Prof. Vijitha de Silva (UR-DCM), Laura Bey (DGHI). We are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by Prof. Randy...
On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, a kick-off event launched the RISE Programme in Indonesia—an education research program led by the SMERU Research Institute, in collaboration with AIGHD and Mathematica Policy Research. The RISE Programme aims to play an active role in Indonesia's education system reform agenda, which is also...
Omvang: fulltime (40 uur per week) Contract: bepaalde tijd (initieel 12 maanden) Onderzoeker Actiever testen op Hiv Het H-TEAM (Hiv Transmissie Eliminatie Amsterdam) is op zoek naar een onderzoeker voor het werkpakket “Proactiever testen op hiv”. Dit werkpakket is gericht op vroeger opsporen en sneller behandelen van hiv-infecties....
To celebrate Global Female Condom Day on Sept 16, we’d like to share our findings from a women's support group intervention promoting female condoms in Mozambique to expand the existing set of contraceptives. Over 300 women participated in the study—a collaboration between AIGHD, University of...
It's official! The Netherlands will host the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health in 2018. The annual conference is one of the most important conferences on tuberculosis and is attended by delegates from more than 125 countries presenting research from every region of the...
Dr. Frank van Leth was elected Chair of the TBnet research network during its annual meeting held in Milan last week. TBnet is a European research collaboration consisting of over 600 members. Its constituency consists of clinicians and specialists from the field of immunology, laboratory science,...
The GeneXpert is a molecular test for tuberculosis (TB) which is much more sensitive than the mainstay of diagnosis in most parts of the world, sputum smear microscopy. South Africa was one of the first countries to implement it as the first-line diagnostic for TB....