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The presentations of the Symposium 'HIV Drug Resistance and the Future of Antiretroviral Treatment in sub-Saharan Africa' held on 6 February 2013 are now online! View..>   ...

VNTR fingerprinting useful for typing M. tuberculosis bacterial strains in Vietnam. Clustering of Beijing genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the Mekong delta in Vietnam on the basis of variable number of tandem repeat versus restriction fragment length polymorphism typing. Authors: Huyen MN, Kremer K, Lan NT, Buu TN,...

An analysis led by Gabriela Gomez, AIGHD, AMC Department of Global Health published March 12 Preventing HIV infection with antiretroviral drugs in people at risk of HIV exposure is cost-effective A review of 13 modelling studies, published in this week’s PLOS Medicine led by Gabriela Gomez and...

Raph Hamers presented in the large, fully occupied, plenary session room during CROI at the symposium entitled "Opportunities and Threats to ART Success". His presentation was very well received. Photo: Raph Hamers, next to him prof. Sharon Lewin, Australia and Jen Kates, Kaiser Family Foundation. View PowerPoint...

Recent publications AIGHD/AMC Department of Global Health by Gabriela Gomez on Ending Congenital Syphilis Congenital syphilis, transmitted during pregnancy to babies, continues to be a significant public health burden. But it is inexpensive to detect and treat and would be relatively simple to eliminate. AIGHD worked with...