A study conducted in Brazil shows that cigarette smoking reduces the response to treatment of tuberculosis measured as the sputum culture becoming negative after 2 months. The effect remained after adjusting for differences between patients in disease severity and alcohol abuse. It was associated with...
The proposal for the Amsterdam Institute for Health and Technology (AIHT) has been ranked second by the jury of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions Design Contest. The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and Duke University are honored with this nomination and is currently...
Making a diagnosis of tuberculosis in a resource-constrained setting is challenging, especially in a population with a marked prevalence of HIV. WHO issued guidelines to help health staff to systematically assess tuberculosis in patients presenting with cough. The manuscript describes how these guidelines work in...
Slums are a known place for active TB transmission. The manuscript describes the situation in a large urban slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It describes the results of active screening of household members for tuberculosis. The study included almost 10,000 participants who were all asked for...
The call for PhD applications for the 2014 round of the programme is now open! The deadline for applications is 21 January 2014. Trans Global Health Call is An Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme coordinated by Athena Institute, VU University. The Trans Global Health programme educates the...
SATURN-PASER unites international minds – reveals potential resistance free HIV drug Press release: 8th Southern African HIV/TB drug resistance and monitoring workshop By Inéz Rossouw 22 November 2013 Bloemfontein – Dolutegravir, a drug aimed against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), might not elicit any resistance to it. This was revealed...
New global consortium to advance first-ever clinical testing of the human hookworm vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa Effort holds potential to control disease plaguing nearly 700 million people The New York Times featured the news of this first ever clinical trial in an article by global health reporter Donald McNeil...
Amsterdam Institute for Health and Technology welcomes opportunity to promote healthy living The proposal for the Amsterdam Institute for Health and Technology (AIHT) has been ranked second by the jury of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions Design Contest. The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD)...
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...
Data on ART outcomes as well as prevalence and incidence of transmitted and acquired HIVDR are scarce in Rwanda. We describe HIVDR at baseline as well as treatment outcomes and acquired HIVDR one year after ART initiation in a cohort of antiretroviral–naïve HIV patients initiating...