“AIGHD has this strength to be a great collaborative organization that brings all discipline together and both researchers and academia”. With the recent appointment of Associate Prof. Anniek de Ruijter to the AIGHD executive board, AIGHD has become an even more interdisciplinary organization. In addition...
For World AIDS day 2020, AIGHD takes you back nearly 20 years to 2001, when Heineken was one of the first multinational companies to provide free HIV treatment to employees and their relatives in several African countries. This private initiative was a result of Dr....
On November 19, Malon Van den Hof successfully defended her PhD “Growing up with HIV: Research into brain development and long-term health” in the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam. She presented in front of family, friends, jury, her promoter Prof. Dr. Peter Reiss and co-promotors Dr. Dasja...
One PhD in Two Time Zones When he was still a medical student in Vietnam, Hai was confronted with a life-changing event during a trip to a remote area in Vietnam. He met an elderly woman, who was severely ill from tuberculosis on the verge of...
Day 1- AMR: what is it and why is it so pressing? We introduce SoNAR-Global Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change in ways that render ineffective the drugs used to cure infections. In other words, medicines become less effective, making infections...
With Antimicrobial Awareness week just around the corner, there is no better time to introduce the newest curriculum from Sonar-Global. The Special-Soc training on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a specialized social science educational curriculum designed to give trainers the knowledge, tools, and materials that they...