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...
Congratulations to AIGHD's Alberto Garcia-Basteiro (PHD student at the Academic Medical Center's Department of Global Health, also affiliated with CISM in Manhica, Mozambique and ISGlobal in Barcelona) who is the recipient of The Union Young Investigator Prize. The prize is awarded each year by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease at its Union World...
Er rust nog steeds een taboe op het hebben van hiv. Terwijl er tegenwoordig juist goed met hiv te leven is, mits je je laat behandelen. Sterker nog, bij succesvolle behandeling is hiv niet meer overdraagbaar! Daarom brengt het H-TEAM (HIV Transmission Elimination Amsterdam), samen...
(Left to right): Front row: Prof. Mary Story (DGHI), Prof. Randy Kramer (DGHI), Guus ten Asbroek (AMC-DGH), Prof. Truls Ostbye (DGHI). Back row: Sarah Cao (DGHI), Prof. Vijitha de Silva (UR-DCM), Laura Bey (DGHI). We are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by Prof. Randy...