In this non-randomized study in Kampala, Uganda, we implemented an SMS reminder service to help TB patients to remember to take their drugs and to offer them a line of communication to the clinic. The service was rated highly by the participants but was underpowered...
You are cordially invited to attend the inaugural lecture "The Next Generation" by Constance Schultsz, (Professor of Global Health, in particular emerging infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance) on Thursday 14 September (4pm) at the aula of the University of Amsterdam. "The emergence and spread of infectious diseases, including infections caused by bacteria resistant...
The UNAIDS' HIV this month contains abstracts or summaries of articles and reviews from scientific journals that are carefully filtered from a selection of close to 1000 articles and reviews over a period of one month. The article "Treatment decisions and mortality in HIV-positive presumptive smear-negative...
Zomerrubriek - Jaloerse blikken uit het buitenland; dít doen we goed In het onlangs uitgekomen UNAIDS-rapport, over de voortgang van de wereldwijde hiv- en aidsbestrijding, ontving Amsterdam een schouderklopje. De stad haalde als een van de eerste steden ter wereld de doelstellingen van de Verenigde Naties...
PRESS RELEASE Amsterdam on the way to becoming an AIDS-free city Amsterdam is one of the first European cities to call a halt to HIV and AIDS once and for all. According to the latest report published by UNAIDS on the eve of the international AIDS conference in...
Prof. Peter Reiss, project leader of the Amsterdam H-TEAM was interviewed by Dutch newspaper Het Parool about the significantly lower numbers of HIV diagnoses in Amsterdam, the recently published UNAIDS report announcing Amsterdam as one of two cities in the world to have reached the international...