A project aimed at increasing earlier testing and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in Tanzania officially launched on Saturday. Led by the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), IBUA TB kicked off in Shinyanga, Tanzania and was attended by more than 40 guests, including...
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Professor Ogobara Doumbo, AIGHD's WARRiOR consortium leader, on Saturday, June 9, 2018. Ogo inspired us all. His passing is an incredible loss to his extended family and his friends, his colleagues and...
A diverse group of delegates recently united at the 12th INTEREST Conference to work toward a common goal: ending the HIV epidemic. The conference provides a platform to share pivotal findings, promote collaboration, and transfer experiences across several fields and many continents. Active participants totaled 592...
The annual Product Development Partnership (PDP) meeting, hosted by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took place on May 23, 2018 in Leiden. The meeting brings together key private and public partners to discuss health themes. This year’s meeting focused...
A new course seeks to inspire the next generation of physicians by providing them with a unique global health experience. Ten Bachelor of Medicine students from the Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC), along with students from Duke University and the University of Ruhuna, headed to Sri Lanka...
An annual conference has only just begun and it has already made history. More than 700 attendees are expected to attend INTEREST, an annual HIV-focused conference in Kigali, Rwanda which kicks off today. It is the largest crowd ever - previous years have seen between 400...
Newfound knowledge of tuberculosis, the opportunity to network with both peers and leading experts and a different perspective to approaching her work. Marjan Molemans, a junior researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), is taking all of this - and more -...
Members of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) team were recently in Tanzania to launch a unique project that seeks to improve drug safety in Africa. PhArmacoVIgilance Africa (PAVIA) held its official kick off activities the first week of May in Dar es...
AIGHD in collaboration with the Dutch government and partners in the HIP project, is organizing an innovative mission called ‘Affordable vaccine development & technology’. Pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions will join AIGHD and FlandersBio in visiting New Delhi and Hydrabad, India for a series of...
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has announced plans to award five Delft Global Scholarships to outstanding female students from sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. The scholarships have been made possible by a donation to the Delft University Fund by Booking.com. Each scholarship will cover the full cost of a...