AIGHD welcomes the collective commitment to ramp up the fight against TB, in particular to advance research and development of new tools to diagnose, treat, and prevent TB. Ministers, leaders of UN organizations, NGOs, civil society, academia and the corporate sector, gathered in Moscow on 16-17...
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has announced plans to award five Delft Global Scholarships to outstanding female students from sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. The scholarships have been made possible by a donation to the Delft University Fund by Booking.com. Each scholarship will cover the full cost of a...
Together with AHTI and other partner institutes, AIGHD co-hosted the 4th edition of the 'Internship Fair' on November 7, 2017. The annual event is designed to provide students from a range of academic backgrounds with professional networking and internship opportunities. Researchers from AIGHD and partner organizations...
Simple effective tools to monitor the long treatment of tuberculosis (TB) are lacking. Easily measured host derived biomarkers have been identified but need to be validated in larger studies and different population groups. Here we investigate the early response in IP-10 levels (between day 0...
Official presentation of World Development Report 2018 at VU University When and where: November 8th 2017, 10-12u. Kerkzaal VU Main building, 16th floor. Why is education in a global crisis? Why do so many children leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills? Could the answer lie in stricter...
Nigeria's national paper, THE NATION, reported today on AIGHD's "OMRON Connect Project & Evaluation Study". Experts in public health have demonstrated that pharmacy-based treatment of hypertension is possible. The Centre for Epidemiology and Health Development (CEHD), Lagos in collaboration with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and...