South Africa diagnoses almost 20,000 patients with Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis each year. A research team comprising Helen Cox (University of Cape Town), AIGHD researchers Anja van’t Hoog and Frank Cobelens, and other colleagues assessed the impact of the Xpert MTB/RIF test (a rapid test for tuberculosis and...
Hart- en vaatziekten komen vaker voor bij hiv-positieve patiënten in vergelijking met de algemene bevolking. In dit artikel bespreken de auteurs factoren die een rol spelen bij het ontstaan van hart- en vaatziekten bij mensen met hiv. Daarnaast gaat men in op belangrijke pijlers in...
Dutch men and Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. The research, led by scientists from Imperial College London and using data from most countries in the world, tracked height among young adult men...
On April 19–21, 2016, the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) will convene to chart a course for the future to tackle the world's drugs problem. The 2016 UNGASS represents a rare opportunity to reassess the global approach to drugs and to move...
De resistentie van hiv tegen een van de meest gebruikte aidsremmers, tenofovir, neemt toe. Dat blijkt uit een meta-analyse gepubliceerd in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Eerder deze week noemde eerste auteur dr. Ravi Gupta de resultaten tegenover de BBC ‘zeer zorgwekkend’. De Nederlandse internist-infectioloog in opleiding...
Potent tenofovir-containing antiretroviral regimens are increasingly used to treat and prevent HIV. Few data exist on the frequency of and risk factors for acquired drug resistance in regions hardest hit by the HIV pandemic. This collaborative study combined data from adult treatment cohorts and clinical...
Without antiretroviral treatment (ART), half of all children born with HIV will die before the age of two years. Although increasing numbers of children in resource-limited settings now have access to ART, important challenges remain. The World Health Organization recommends the use of protease inhibitors for...
Constance Schultsz et al. did a prospective study of acquisition of fecal colonisation and carriage with extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae in 2001 Dutch travellers (the COMBAT study),2from November, 2012, to November, 2013. Acquisition was defined as the absence of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in a fecal swab...
The policy brief of the Ghana NHIS study is published on the INCLUDE-social protection website of NWO-WOTRO. The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), initiated in 2004, aims to realize accessible quality healthcare services for the entire population of Ghana. While this mechanism has been successful in...
Resistance to tuberculosis (TB) drugs is a major public health problem threatening progress made in TB control worldwide. In some European and Central Asian countries, over 15 % of new and 50 % of previously treated TB cases have multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) that cannot be treated with...