Steven van de Vijver, Director of Urban Health at AIGHD, was interviewed on KBC Good Morning Kenya. In the one hour interview Steven speaks about hypertension and the SCALE UP project. Please click the following to view the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAc4g-6XbLA ...
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...
Kenya NCD-Info is a knowledge-sharing platform for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in Kenya. The aim of Kenya NCD-Info is to create a one-stop portal for all information related to NCD in Kenya. Who is the portal for? Researchers, academics and program implementers who want to share their work...
Tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment is free of charge in the public sector in Bangladesh. A large study showed that despite this, a large majority of identified TB patients did not use these services. Instead they “shopped around” between different types of informal health care providers....
Meeting summary report - Tuesday 6 May 2014, Lusaka, Zambia Rising levels of drug-resistant HIV as a result of the rapid scale-up of antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa are a potential threat to the control of the HIV epidemic. To discuss rising levels of drug-resistant HIV as...
Well-conducted meta-analyses can inform public health policy. They make information accessible for decision-makers, in a summary format that provides a critical overview of the evidence. Poorly performed meta-analyses can mislead decision-makers when, for example, they exclude some studies on purpose, introduce bias, alter original data,...