Joep Lange’s legacy to be carried forward in Joep Lange Institute and Joep Lange Chair Amsterdam, 15 July 2015 – Today, almost a year after the MH17 disaster, the foundation of the Joep Lange Institute and the Joep Lange Chair and Fellows program was announced. The...
Peter Reiss, Professor of Internal Medicine at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Director of Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM), gave a radio interview (in Dutch) on Radio 1: De Kennis van Nu, about the progress of the fight against...
Interview with Professor Dr Michael Boele van Hensbroek, one of the AMC and AIGHD Principal Investigators, for Emma Kinderziekenhuis AMC (in Dutch) Read the interview here. ...
The use of simple and cheap technologies is expected to improve access to quality care especially in areas with limited access to laboratory services. In Senegal, the SOCIALAB project assessed the appropriateness of the use of rapid tests in peripheral health facilities and found practices...
Symposium report Research in action: from AIDS to global health to impact. A symposium in recognition of the scientific contributions of Professor Joep Lange On Tuesday 14 October 2014, 850 family members, friends, colleagues, prominent scientists and dignitaries from all over the world gathered in Amsterdam to...
After more than a decade of major achievements, the AIDS response is at a crucial juncture, both in terms of its immediate trajectory and its sustainability, as well as its place in the new global health and development agendas. In May, 2013, the UNAIDS–Lancet Commission—a...
The Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA) houses the main departments and laboratories within the University of Amsterdam/Academic Medical Center (AMC) involved in patient care, education and research in the field of Infectious Diseases and Immunity. CINIMA coordinates, integrates and combines the knowledge present...
If you had a colony of parasites living in your gut and siphoning off your blood, you might not even know. Many of the hundreds of millions of people suffering from hookworm disease are completely unaware of their wriggly lodgers, which can seriously damage their...
On Saturday, 30 May 2015, the AmsterdamDiner Foundation welcomed more than 1,000 guests to the 23rd edition of one the largest fundraising events in the Netherlands, the AmsterdamDiner. For the second year in a row, the proceeds of the evening went to the ambitious HIV...
The global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced AIDS deaths and HIV incidence, but drug resistance is threatening these advances. This meta-analysis combined data from 50,870 patients in 287 studies between 2000 and 2013. It found that the average overall prevalence of transmitted drug...