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...
Every year, we mark our calendars for World TB Day—a day to raise public awareness about the devastating disease and commemorate the thousands of people who lose their live to tuberculosis each day. Yet, in a time when coronavirus news is at the forefront of...
The coronavirus reached the Netherlands last week and began spreading around the country. How has the Dutch population reacted? What is a useful frame of reference for this situation? And what are the legal guidelines for dealing with the outbreak? Four UvA researchers - a...