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On October 11-13, the Fast-Track Cities 2022 conference took place in Sevilla, Spain. The conference brought together people from more than 450 cities and municipalities that comprise the [...]

In August 2022, the H-TEAM’s Road Map project and colleagues – including Alexandra Blenkinsop as first author – published the project’s first article in eLife, titled “Estimating the potential to [...]

The years of research by H-TEAM is now formally being embraced by policymakers in Amsterdam. Today, the city announces a new policy with a concrete goal of 0 new HIV infections by 2026. Amsterdam [...]

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 January 22nd, H-TEAM member and AMPrEP project leader Elske Hoornenborg will defend her dissertation PrEP in the Netherlands – The introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. The public [...]

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 [...]

Figures released today by Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) show that the number of new HIV diagnoses in the last three years in the Netherlands has fallen from 941 in 2015 to 664 in 2018. This puts [...]

On Wednesday 13 November 2019, the 12th Netherlands Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment (NCHIV) will take place at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in [...]

A pill that provides good protection against HIV is now available in the Netherlands, but some GPs are reluctant in prescribing it. GP and H-TEAM member Jan van Bergen, professor HIV and STI in [...]

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 [...]

On August 1st, the regulation on the distribution of HIV prevention pill PrEP commenced. “No reason to rejoice, according to Public Health Service employees, HIV and STI professionals and most of [...]

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 [...]

From 21-24 July, Mexico City will host the 10th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019). Held every two years, the IAS Conference on HIV Science is a unique forum for [...]

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 [...]

“The Dutch government keeps postponing full PrEP coverage”, writes Antony Oomen of Soa Aids Netherlands and the H-TEAM. “Meanwhile, the Dutch HIV epidemic is unnecessary but [...]

The provision of a pill that can prevent an HIV infection might be delayed for another six months. According to interest groups, this is ‘incomprehensible’. In a letter to the minister for [...]

Each year, in the run-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December, Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) publishes the annual HIV Monitoring Report. Today they released the latest figures for 2017, which reveal [...]