For Assoc. Prof. Frank van Leth, research is more than just a career – it’s a passion that he hopes will help improve health care around the world. “For me, the purpose of research has never been to do it just for the sake of doing...
A recently completed project has shown aligning tuberculosis (TB) screening with existing HIV screening efforts may improve earlier detection and treatment. IBUA TB, which stands for Integrating tuBerculosis screening into a Universal test and treat Approach, was developed after a 2012 TB prevalence survey found that only 37-48% of...
It’s been five years since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine. All 298 on board were killed, including our director Prof. Joep Lange and our colleague Jacqueline van Tongeren, who were on their way to the 20th International AIDS Conference in...
Shared on behalf of the HIV Research Trust The HIV Research Trust is a charitable foundation that provides financial support to physicians, nurses, scientists and other health care professionals in early/mid-career who are located in resource-limited settings from low-income and lower-middle-income countries working in the field of HIV...
Can digital tools help improve access to health care? A newly launched ‘diaries’ research study hopes to find out. The Enhancing UHC in Kenya through digital innovations research project seeks to understand how Kenyan rural households manage their household finances and, how they decide on which...
Some people consider the number 13 to be unlucky. But for the organisers of the recent INTEREST Conference, it’s a number they’ll remember for years to come. The 13th annual INTEREST Conference took place in Accra, Ghana May 14-17 and had the largest number of abstract...
A new public-private partnership is working to tackle one of the biggest global health threats. AMR-Global is a recently launched public private partnership (PPP) that seeks to establish relationships with academia and organizations within and outside the Netherlands to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) around the world. AMR...
An innovative study offers new insights into how partners in monogamous and polygynous households cooperate, which could impact the way social support programs in Africa distribute resources. There are an increasing number of programs which involve a transfer of either cash or goods to households in...
A recent article in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal outlines the importance of the new SoNAR Global consortium in efforts to prepare for and respond to infectious disease outbreaks and drug resistance across the globe. The piece, co-authored by AIGHD's Prof. Anita Hardon, Prof. Constance Schultsz,...
Investing in global health and innovation should be higher priority in Europe’s new research funding program, according to a newly published Lancet commentary. The piece was developed by members of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN), whose membership includes research institutes and universities affiliated...