Remko van Leeuwen, AIGHD, Project Director of the EU-supported HOOKVAC Consortium and Dr. Peter Hotez, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, discuss the link between hookworm and Ebola. "The latest December Ebola Situation Report from WHO indicates that Sierra Leone currently has the highest total number...
AIGHD is pleased to announce that an article submitted by the TBNET consortium has just been awarded the science price for 2014 from the consortium of funders for science in Germany (Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft). The article published in the European Respiratory Journal is entitled...
The symposium Research in Action: From AIDS to Global Health to Impact on 14 October 2014 highlighted Joep’s scientific legacy. The scientific symposium traced Joep Lange’s career, starting in the early eighties with the treatment of the first AIDS patients and the design of antiretroviral...
The International AIDS Society (IAS) announced that Amsterdam, Netherlands will host the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018), and will be held in July 2018 at the Amsterdam RAI and is expected to bring together approximately 18,000 participants from around the world. "This is recognition for...
An additional two PhD students received Young Investigator Awards for presenting their research at CROI 2015. New results from the AGEhIV Cohort Study, investigating comorbidity and aging in HIV, will be presented at the CROI 2015 conference as well. Two abstracts have been accepted for poster...
To honor Joep Lange, TEDxAmsterdam shared his words with the world. View the Posthumous talk held at TEDxAmsterdam: Posthumous TED talk Joep Lange After the Posthumous talk Monique van Dusseldorp of TEDxAmsterdam interviewed Michiel Heidenrijk & Onno Schellekens. View the interview on YouTube: Interview with Michiel...
Three Masters’ students joined the PASER (Pan-African Studies to Evaluate Resistance) research group for internships this year and their hard work has paid off. Today they all received Young Investigator Awards and will present their research at the prestigious CROI 2015 conference in Seattle. The Conference...
Sex workers can be at higher risk for gonorrhoea and the reasons are varied and interrelated. AIGHD researcher Gabriela Gomez and her colleagues developed a framework of gonorrhoea risk that can help in the design of research studies. The analysis of findings from such studies...
On November 10, AHTI (Amsterdam Health Technology Institute) was launched at the mayor's residence in Amsterdam. AHTI is a new international institute focused on health and technology, and is an initiative of the municipality of Amsterdam, AIGHD and the Duke Global Health Institute (representing Duke...
Toyin Saraki, the Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and also the wife of the former governor of Kwara, has dedicated her latest Huffington Post blog to Joep's memory and legacy. "Every one of us within the global health community can set forth a ripple of...