INVITATION We are happy to invite you to attend the public defense by Sonia Boender of her thesis: Long-term effects of HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: from access to quality. Friday 20 May at 12.00 hours. Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, 1012 EZ Amsterdam Promotores: Prof. dr. T.F. Rinke de Wit (Universiteit van...
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...
AIGHD researcher Raph Hamers in the Dutch Press (NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next): Aidstherapy in Africa is in danger because of drug resistancy of the AIDS virus. Patients do not receive their drugs on time or lack a strict regime to take them. The occurence of a...
TOMORROW in De Rode Hoed: Dr. Constance Schultsz will take part in the panel discussion: “Bacteria as friends in the food chain” which is going to take place on Tuesdaynight 19 April, 20:00-22:00 hrs. For the seventh time in succession De Rode Hoed organizes this...
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...
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...
On April 19–21, 2016, the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) will convene to chart a course for the future to tackle the world's drugs problem. The 2016 UNGASS represents a rare opportunity to reassess the global approach to drugs and to move...
More than one in ten men and one in seven women across the globe are now obese, according to the world’s biggest obesity study. The research, which was led by scientists from Imperial College London, involved the World Health Organization and over 700 researchers across the...
Last Thursday, 24 March, Hanneke Borgdorff successfully defended her PhD, titled "The Vaginal Microbiome, associations with sexually transmitted infections and the mucosal immune response". In a fully packed Agnietenkapel, friends and colleagues listened to her enthusiastic lecture and defense. ...