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21 Apr HIV and the lungs: Important discoveries in recently published Lancet Healthy Longevity article

Earlier this month, Sebastiaan Verboeket and colleagues published a paper in the Lancet Healthy Longevity journal about the long-term effects of HIV-infection on lung function. As increasing numbers of people living with HIV have access to antiretroviral therapy, they are able to achieve sustained viral...

15 Dec Conference recap: NCHIV

The 13th NCHIV, Netherlands Conference on HIV, took place on 24 & 26 November featuring many renowned speakers, all addressing HIV pathogenesis, epidemiology, prevention, and treatment. The conference, which usually takes place in Amsterdam, went online for the first time, and proved to be a...

01 Dec World AIDS Day: Drawing lessons from HIV to tackle COVID

For World AIDS day 2020, AIGHD takes you back nearly 20 years to 2001, when Heineken was one of the first multinational companies to provide free HIV treatment to employees and their relatives in several African countries. This private initiative was a result of Dr....

28 Jul Looking back at the inception of HIV-NAT in celebration of Professor Praphan Phanuphak’s retirement

Their vision was a cross-cultural HIV research center that would conduct clinical research and intervention studies yielding answers to locally and regionally relevant research questions. Their research would serve first and foremost the people living with HIV, the scientific community, healthcare workers, governments, and universities....

11 Jun New HIV Policy in Amsterdam embraces H-TEAM research

The years of research by H-TEAM is now formally being embraced by policymakers in Amsterdam. Today, the city announces a new policy with a concrete goal of 0 new HIV infections by 2026. Amsterdam wants to test for HIV more often, increase the use of...

18 May HIV and the gut microbiome: a newly published study in renowned academic journal

Can the gut microbiome tell us something about increases in noncommunicable diseases in people with HIV? Two of AIGHD’s PhD students, Ornella Sortino and Eveline Verheij, with NIH intramural AIDS Research Fellow Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, and supervised by Prof. Peter Reiss, Dr. Irini Sereti and others...

25 Nov Seth Inzaule awarded doctorate degree ‘Cum Laude’ for HIV drug resistance thesis

After 4 years of cutting-edge research, work and analyses, Seth Inzaule successfully defended his thesis on November 12. The defense took place at the University of Amsterdam’s Agnietenkapel. At a scientific symposium held in his honor, and in honor of his co-PhD candidate Cissy Kityo,...

20 Nov Looming threat or Minor detail? A summary of the HIV drug resistance symposium

Just how big of an issue is HIV drug resistance? Do we need to be worried? A scientific symposium held November 11 at the Amsterdam UMC, sought to answer both of these questions while highlighting the importance of HIV drug resistance from a public health...