World Immunization Week is a WHO initiative that promotes the use of vaccines to protect people against infectious diseases. Immunizations save millions of lives every year and they are widely recognized as one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions around the world. With...
The fourth Sustainable Development Goal involves ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education for all. Poor teacher accountability leads to poor education quality for students. This is especially true in schools situated in remote areas. In order to improve education quality and teacher accountability in remote...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate its detrimental effects in many facets of everyday life. One of the most impactful is the socio-economic shock to the entire world. With many discussions of the economic fallouts of the outbreak, we are beginning to see the enormous...
It is evident, now more than ever before, the importance of access to good health care. With the growing COVID-19 pandemic, not only access to health care, but also trust in the health care system is crucial. This is why Stephen Duku’s PhD defense couldn’t...
Six institutions attended a virtual meeting this week to kick off the new initiative Predicting the Future: Incipient Tuberculosis (PreFIT), a project financed by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), got underway this week. Because of the COVID-19 crisis, the project kickoff meeting...
In the Netherlands, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020. In the past several weeks, the virus has continued to spread throughout the country and around the world. As citizens react to the outbreak and the measures introduced, AIGHD staff...