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In medical first, a baby with H.I.V. is deemed cured Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children...

Toenemde HIV-Resistentie vraagt om nieuwe aanpak van behandeling Artikel over het onderzoek van Raph Hamers (AIGHD/PharmAccess) op Vice Versa Online geschreven door: Lennaert Rooijakkers op 25 februari 2013 (article in Dutch only)   Link: viceversaonline.nl/2013/02/tijd-voor-volgende-stap-in-hiv-behandeling-nu-resistentie-steeds-meer-toeneemt/   ...

National Postcode Lottery supports PharmAccess the next five years with 500,000 euros a year During the Goed Geld Gala on Wednesday February 13, the National Postcode Lottery announced that PharmAccess will receive a grant of 500,000 euros annually for the next five years. The gala, which...

Building the evidence base for new tuberculosis diagnostics. On 13 November 2012, the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the South African Ministry of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development organized a meeting on implementation research and scale-up...

Trans Global Health Call for PhD Applications An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme coordinated by Athena Institute, VU University  The Trans Global Health programme educates the new generation of global health scientist able to apply transdisciplinary research approaches to meet today’s health challenges. The studies conducted...

Research on Implementation of Interventions in Tuberculosis Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review Frank Cobelens, Sanne van Kampen, Eleanor Ochodo, Rifat Atun, Christian Lienhardt   Little evidence to support TB interventions in real-world, low-resource settings Tuberculosis remains one of the major infectious diseases affecting millions of...