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This was presented during an FT/IFC award ceremony in London on Thursday, 9th June 2016. The FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards are presented by the Financial Times (FT) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused...

INVITATION We are happy to invite you to attend the public defense by Andrew Kerkhoff of his thesis: Anaemia in Patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in South Africa: Predictive/prognostic value, aetiologies and treatment Thuesday 21 June 2016 at 12.00 hours. Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam    Promotores: Prof. dr. F.G.J. Cobelens (Universiteit...

Joining forces for an HIV-free future Every year a thousand people still become infected with HIV in the Netherlands. With so many ways to prevent infection nowadays, this shouldn’t be happening anymore. By combining education, prevention, testing and treatment, we can stop the spread of HIV...

Laboratory screening tests which detect medical conditions that threaten maternal and child health, constitute an important component of antenatal care (ANC). The SOCIALAB program reveals that in Senegal, less than a 1/3 of pregnant women receive the complete set of 7 recommended ANC tests. Less...