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08 Apr

Posted at 14:23h in News
Six colleagues who were working in the HIV field – Joep Lange, Jacqueline van Tongeren, Pim de Kuijer, Lucie van Mens, Glenn Thomas, and Martine De Schutter – were killed when their flight en route to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the Ukraine in...

09 Mar

Posted at 14:43h in News
Today the International AIDS Society (IAS) announced the appointment of Peter Reiss, MD, PHD as Local Co-Chair of the 22ndInternational AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018). The conference will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 22 to 28 July 2018. “I am deeply honored to serve as...

04 Mar

Posted at 21:33h in News
In Dutch: AMC magazine besteedt aandacht aan het promotieonderzoek van Hanneke Borgdorff: meer soa’s door verstoorde flora bij Rwandese prostituees. De kans op een seksueel overdraagbare aandoening (soa) is groot als de vaginale flora verstoord is. Vrouwen met hiv en andere soa’s hebben een groter...

23 Feb

Posted at 15:02h in All News
From 20 – 25 February, the  Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) and CROI-affiliated International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop (RW) will take place in Boston, USA. AIGHD is sending three PhD students from the PASER-MARCH network to these conferences: Ragna Boerma, Cissy Kityo and...

23 Feb

Posted at 15:02h in News
From 20 – 25 February, the  Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) and CROI-affiliated International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop (RW) will take place in Boston, USA. AIGHD is sending three PhD students from the PASER-MARCH network to these conferences: Ragna Boerma, Cissy Kityo and...

11 Feb

Posted at 21:56h in News
On Tuesday January 26, KIT hosted and co-organized the event “From Innovation to Impact”, in close cooperation with KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Frank Cobelens represented AIGHD in the Panel debate with his introduction about vision and leadership in Global...

11 Feb

Posted at 21:50h in News, Publications
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...

25 Jan

Posted at 20:26h in News
It is our pleasure to announce the 10th International Workshop on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research in Resource Limited Settings (INTEREST), on 3-6 May 2016 in the Hilton Yaoundé Hotel in Yaoundé, Cameroon.   An exciting scientific program is being set up by the...

17 Jan

Posted at 13:44h in News
Haroon Ali – “Alsof je een vitaminepil bij de maaltijd neemt” (deel 2, 16 januari 2016) Alles went, zelfs een dagelijkse dosis hiv-remmers. Alexander (49), Peter (42) en Giovanni (23) slikken sinds een half jaar iedere dag het preventieve hiv-medicijn PrEP, in de vorm van...

12 Jan

Posted at 15:49h in News, Publications
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...