A qualitative study of Rwandan adolescents' views on sex and HIV This qualitative study explored the views and experiences of adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV in Kigali, Rwanda, regarding sex, love, marriage, children and hope for the future. The adolescents reported experiencing similar sexual needs and dilemmas...
Screening household members ("contacts") of tuberculosis (TB) patients for TB is establised practice in low TB incidence countries but not much done in settings with high TB incidence, and little is known about its feasibility and effectiveness for improving TB case finding in such settings....
Remarks by Catherine Hankins on the lives of Jacqueline van Tongeren and Joep Lange. To read click here. ...
Joep Lange (1954-2014), professor of Medicine at the University of Amsterdam, was one of the most prominent professionals in his field – a person who inspired many and managed to change the world through his unwavering commitment. In recent weeks, he was, among many other things,...
Catherine Hankins, AIGHD, is co-chairing one of three satellites at the upcoming AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia that are taking a closer look at voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) scale-up. 'Key Programmatic Challenges of the Acceleration of VMMC for HIV Prevention: Cost, Demand Creation,...
Steven van de Vijver, Director of Urban Health at AIGHD, was interviewed on KBC Good Morning Kenya. In the one hour interview Steven speaks about hypertension and the SCALE UP project. Please click the following to view the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAc4g-6XbLA ...
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...
Kenya NCD-Info is a knowledge-sharing platform for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in Kenya. The aim of Kenya NCD-Info is to create a one-stop portal for all information related to NCD in Kenya. Who is the portal for? Researchers, academics and program implementers who want to share their work...
Tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment is free of charge in the public sector in Bangladesh. A large study showed that despite this, a large majority of identified TB patients did not use these services. Instead they “shopped around” between different types of informal health care providers....
Meeting summary report - Tuesday 6 May 2014, Lusaka, Zambia Rising levels of drug-resistant HIV as a result of the rapid scale-up of antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa are a potential threat to the control of the HIV epidemic. To discuss rising levels of drug-resistant HIV as...