At the 19th INTEREST conference in Windhoek, Namibia, Patane Shilabye from South Africa and Uganda’s Clark Joshua Brianwong took home the prestigious Joep Lange and Charles Bouchers awards for high-scoring scientific abstracts submitted by African early-career researchers. Here, they talk about why they study what...
The 2025 Joep Lange Chair & Fellows Symposium will take place on 12 November at De Balie in Amsterdam. Hosted by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and Joep Lange Institute, this annual event features leading practitioners and thinkers reflecting on a theme...
Research completed under AIGHD supervision demonstrates that simultaneously screening for both active and dormant TB infection could save lives and curtail infection rates, especially among migrants from TB high burden countries. Dr Dominik Zenner conducted the study with a team of researchers as part of his...
This article was written originally in Dutch. You can find the Dutch version below the English text. On 24 March 1882, German physician Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Since 1982, this date has been declared World Tuberculosis Day, a day...
Applications for 2025's HIV Research Trust Scholarship is finally open! The closing date of the scholarship's application portal will be on 11:00 BST on 2 April 2025 so make sure to submit your files before then! Scholarships are for early- to mid-career researchers in resource-limited settings...
It's only been 10 days since Trump 2.0's administration began and already, we see many confusing and tumultuous executive orders taking hold and changing the global development and aid landscape. From the US's withdrawal from World Health Organization to the recent suspension of all USAID programming...
The first week of November saw the 4th edition of the Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium. Co-organized by AIGHD and the Joep Lange Institute, the symposium is built on the legacy of our late founder, Prof. Joep Lange, who dedicated his life to bridging...
This year’s Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium will be held on the 7th of November, 13:00-17:00 at De Balie in Amsterdam. Check out the full programme on the Joep Lange Chairs website: jlc.aighd.org. 2024 marks a special year for our organization as we celebrate 15...
The Infectious Disease Institute (IDI) of Makerere University came to AIGHD’s Amsterdam office last 18-20 September 2024 for a partnership visit. The IDI team, composed of Executive Director Andrew Kambugu, Head of Research Stephen Okoboi, and Bioinformatics Scientist Ronald Galiwango, met with their counterparts from...
All interested are invited to take part in our October series of Joint Online Trainings hosted by the Stool4TB, CAGE-TB, and PreFIT project team. The PreFIT, Stool4TB, and CAGE-TB teams are once again opening up their free online scientific and academic skills trainings to any and...