Since the start of the HIV epidemic, prevention, treatment and care have come a long way - but there's still work to be done. HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) is on the rise, which is the ability of the virus to mutate and become resistant to the...
As the expression goes, you can take the woman out of the tropics, but you can’t take the passion for the tropics out of the woman. Internal Medicine Prof. Michèle van Vugt is proof. On September 28, 2018, she delivered her inaugural lecture at the Aula...
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Health[e]Foundation and the Amsterdam UMC are pleased to host a global health symposium focused on vaccinations. Registration is free and open until December 10. After clean water, vaccination is the most effective public health intervention in the world that saves...
The latest figures released today by Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) for 2017 reveal a reduction in both HIV diagnoses and the estimated number of newly-acquired HIV infections in the Netherlands. In 2017, fewer people were diagnosed with HIV (750) than in 2016 (820). The figures, published...
Intern David van Melle is investigating the global problem of antibiotic resistance by engaging an important population: the very patients who are resistant to the drugs. David, a third-year Master’s of Medicine student at the Amsterdam UMC, is completing his scientific internship at the Amsterdam Institute...
A comprehensive review on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in low and middle-income countries was recently published in The Lancet HIV. Antimicrobial drug resistance is an increasing problem with respect to treatment of common infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, bacterial infections and HIV. The most recent WHO progress...