Anja van't Hoog and Daniella Brals conducted a five-day training course (3-7 April) in Ilorin, Nigera. Twenty-eight public health resident doctors participated in the course which was kindly organised by Professor Tanimola M. Akande (College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin). Course attendees learnt data analysis...
We are very much saddened to learn of the sudden death of our colleague and friend Professor Mark Wainberg who drowned off the Florida coast on Tuesday while on holiday with his family over Passover. Mark had been at the cutting edge of AIDS research...
Renowned TB-researcher to deliver Spinoza Lecture Prof. dr. Christoph Lange will deliver the Spinoza lecture on Tuesday 14 March. The title of the lecture is “The return of the white plague: emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe”. Controlling the tuberculosis epidemic is severely hampered by the rise in...
Renowned TB-researcher to deliver Spinoza Lecture Prof. dr. Christoph Lange will deliver the Spinoza lecture on Tuesday 14 March. The title of the lecture is “The return of the white plague: emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe”. Controlling the tuberculosis epidemic is severely hampered by the rise in...
Vacature: Secretaresse Omvang: fulltime (40 uur per week) Contract: bepaalde tijd (initieel 6 maanden) Het Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) is op zoek naar een secretaresse. Ben jij die professional, kritisch, altijd op zoek naar de beste oplossingen? Heb je gevoel voor humor en weet je zaken positief...
South Africa diagnoses almost 20,000 patients with Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis each year. A research team comprising Helen Cox (University of Cape Town), AIGHD researchers Anja van’t Hoog and Frank Cobelens, and other colleagues assessed the impact of the Xpert MTB/RIF test (a rapid test for tuberculosis and...