Just how big of an issue is HIV drug resistance? Do we need to be worried? A scientific symposium held November 11 at the Amsterdam UMC, sought to answer both of these questions while highlighting the importance of HIV drug resistance from a public health point...
Complex issues often require creative solutions and antimicrobial resistance is no exception. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism, such as bacteria or viruses, to stop an antimicrobial (antibiotics, antivirals and anti-malarials) from killing it. It impacts all areas of health care in every...
Figures released today by Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) show that the number of new HIV diagnoses in the last three years in the Netherlands has fallen from 941 in 2015 to 664 in 2018. This puts the Netherlands on track to achieve the target of...
The good news is that for people who have access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) HIV is now a manageable chronic condition. This is a tremendous achievement that has saved numerous lives. One concern is that people living with HIV seem to contract more age-related illnesses than...
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development. Antimicrobial resistance occurs naturally, but overuse of antimicrobials in humans and animals as well as the spread of resistant bacteria in unhygienic environments speed up AMR. AMR has been...
Students showing mastery of research during recent global health master class AIGHD provided 12 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to present their work and get feedback from their peers and the Chairs during two master classes last week. These first ever AIGHD master classes were...