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Building the evidence base for new tuberculosis diagnostics. On 13 November 2012, the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the South African Ministry of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development organized a meeting on implementation research and scale-up...

Trans Global Health Call for PhD Applications An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme coordinated by Athena Institute, VU University  The Trans Global Health programme educates the new generation of global health scientist able to apply transdisciplinary research approaches to meet today’s health challenges. The studies conducted...

Research on Implementation of Interventions in Tuberculosis Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review Frank Cobelens, Sanne van Kampen, Eleanor Ochodo, Rifat Atun, Christian Lienhardt   Little evidence to support TB interventions in real-world, low-resource settings Tuberculosis remains one of the major infectious diseases affecting millions of...

REGISTER NOW! for the 6th Netherlands Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment, 27 november 2012. Amongst plenary speakers: Catherine Hankins, AIGHD, Richard Koup, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, USA. Read more..>   ...

Three full-time winter school courses in Medical Anthropology and Sociology Date: January 7 – January 15, 2013 Location: University of Amsterdam Click here for more information..>   ...

Interview (in Dutch) with AIGHD colleague Steven van de Vijver, Nairobi for OneWorld Today Een goedkoop dieet van maïspap en frisdrank in Keniaanse sloppenwijken resulteert in ondervoede kinderen met dikke ouders. Anno 2012 lijken de sloppen in Nairobi nog steeds in een permanente Hongerwinter te verkeren....