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INVITATION We are happy to invite you to attend the public defense by Andrew Kerkhoff of his thesis: Anaemia in Patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in South Africa: Predictive/prognostic value, aetiologies and treatment Thuesday 21 June 2016 at 12.00 hours. Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, 1012 EZ...

Joining forces for an HIV-free future Every year a thousand people still become infected with HIV in the Netherlands. With so many ways to prevent infection nowadays, this shouldn’t be happening anymore. By combining education, prevention, testing and treatment, we can stop the spread of...

Koert Lindijer’s article in NRC Handelsblad/nrc.next, now translated in English. About the experience with failing antiretroviral therapy because of increasing resistance to the most commonly used antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. Which is confirmed in a study conducted in 36 countries between 1998 and 2015. Based on...

On April 22 Peter Reiss and Raph Hamers were interviewed by NPO1. “HIV resistance in Africa is no surprise”, says Reiss, “resistance should always be taken into account when prescribing HIV medication”. In areas where drugs come (too) late, patients take meds in a less...

Next week the 10th, from 3 to 6 May,  INTEREST Workshop will take place. The abstracts of three of our researchers – Stefanie Kroeze, Ragna Boerma and Seth Inzaule – have been approved and will be presented at the multiple day conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon: “Tenofovir-containing first-line ART...

At the end of the 20th International Workshop on HIV Observational Databases in Budapest (7 – 9 April) Rosan van Zoest received one of the two young investigator awards for best poster presentation for her work on “Primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention is suboptimal in both...