After years of dedicated research and hard work, Dr. Elske Hoornenborg successfully defended her dissertation in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam, in the Oude Lutherse Kerk in Amsterdam on [...]
On November 29th, during the National STI*HIV*Sex Conference in Amsterdam, a ZonMw “Parel” (Pearl) was awarded to drs. Elske Hoornenborg, head of the STI outpatient clinic at the Public Health [...]
HIV testing weeks were carried out in both 2017 and 2018, following previous free HIV testing weeks organized by the H-TEAM initiative. During the HIV testing week, everyone in Amsterdam can have [...]
According to Peter Leusink, H-TEAM member Jan van Bergen and others, the GP is an important link in the prevention of HIV transmissions with PrEP in men who have sex with men. The national [...]
A new study has revealed early diagnosis and immediate start of treatment enables people newly diagnosed with HIV to suppress their virus quicker, rendering the virus undetectable in their body. [...]
This week it has been five years since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine. One of the 298 people on board was AIGHD director and H-TEAM founder Prof. Joep Lange. [...]
One of the prominent victims of MH17 was AIDS pioneer Joep Lange. Five years later, his views are very much alive in the way the disease is dealt with. Read the full article on the website of NRC [...]
As of August 1st, HIV prevention pill PrEP will be available in all PHS (GGD) regions in the Netherlands. Access to PrEP remains limited: the pills will only be available for a ‘high-risk group’. [...]
The House of Representatives of the Netherlands does not want to wait until summer to provide PrEP and has adopted a motion of D66 and GroenLinks so that current PrEP users can go to the Public [...]
More than twenty people have contracted HIV because they could not get PrEP. PrEP is a pill which prevents an HIV infection. The AIDS Fund/STI AIDS Netherlands criticizes the minister for medical [...]
Source: NOS-Nieuwsuur 27-07-2018 (partly English spoken, no English subtitles)In Amsterdam, approximately 400 people are walking around with an HIV infection without knowing it. They are the ones [...]
Amsterdam is at the international forefront when it comes to HIV control and HIV prevention. At AIDS2018, other cities are hoping to learn a few tricks on the way to an AIDS free world in 2030. [...]
The Dutch government is going to distribute PrEP, a medicine which reduces the risk of HIV infection, to men in a ‘high risk group’ for a period of five years. This was announced on Tuesday by [...]
The price of PrEP, the pill that can prevent new HIV infections, will decrease significantly. Plusapotheken, pharmacies that distribute the prevention pill, have made a deal with pharmacist [...]
Prevention is better than cure, especially with a deadly illness such as HIV. Luckily there is a pill that can prevent infection with the HIV virus: PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis). Together with [...]
Jealous looks from abroad: this is something we are doing right. In the latest UNAIDS report, covering the progress of the worldwide fight against HIV and AIDS, Amsterdam got a pat on the back. [...]
Faster HIV tests, treatment in an earlier stage of the infection and new campaigns. Amsterdam is on its way to wipe out the virus for good. The yearly number of new HIV diagnoses has halved in [...]
How do you find the last people in the Netherlands who are living with HIV but don’t know it? Nieuwsuur reports on the situation in Amsterdam. There, for over two years, the H-team has been [...]
HIV prevention pill PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is not yet available in the Netherlands except for participants in the AMPrEP (Amsterdam PrEP) study of Public Health Service Amsterdam (GGD [...]
