After more than a decade of major achievements, the AIDS response is at a crucial juncture, both in terms of its immediate trajectory and its sustainability, as well as its place in the new global health and development agendas. In May, 2013, the UNAIDS–Lancet Commission—a...
The Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA) houses the main departments and laboratories within the University of Amsterdam/Academic Medical Center (AMC) involved in patient care, education and research in the field of Infectious Diseases and Immunity. CINIMA coordinates, integrates and combines the knowledge present...
If you had a colony of parasites living in your gut and siphoning off your blood, you might not even know. Many of the hundreds of millions of people suffering from hookworm disease are completely unaware of their wriggly lodgers, which can seriously damage their...
On Saturday, 30 May 2015, the AmsterdamDiner Foundation welcomed more than 1,000 guests to the 23rd edition of one the largest fundraising events in the Netherlands, the AmsterdamDiner. For the second year in a row, the proceeds of the evening went to the ambitious HIV...
The global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced AIDS deaths and HIV incidence, but drug resistance is threatening these advances. This meta-analysis combined data from 50,870 patients in 287 studies between 2000 and 2013. It found that the average overall prevalence of transmitted drug...
5 – 8 May, Harare The INTEREST 2015 Workshop dedicated to Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren was a resounding success. Over 470 registrants participated in a stellar scientific program that included plenary addresses, oral abstracts, poster discussion sessions (for the first time), satellites, and poster...