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The recommendations call on researchers, authorities and funders to ensure consistent protocols, robust infrastructure, and flexible ethical and funding mechanisms.  Longitudinal cohort studies, which track individuals over time, have proven invaluable for understanding disease progression, identifying risk factors, and evaluating interventions such as vaccines. During the...

28 October, 2025

Mathematics was her “go to” subject at school, muses biostatistician Mildred Pepukai, “because you don't have to spell anything”. Her aptitude for numbers has taken Mildred far in life: first from collecting data in the field to analysing it; from a bachelor’s degree in applied science...

16 September, 2025

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...

24 July, 2025

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...

30 April, 2025

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...

24 March, 2025

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...

31 January, 2025

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...

30 January, 2025

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...

11 October, 2024

The 18th International Conference on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research was once again successfully held last 14-17 May 2024. This year, the conference was hosted at the prestigious Palais des Congrès de Cotonou in Cotonou, Benin. With over 850 delegates across the globe and...

09 August, 2024
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