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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 [...]

From July 29 to August 2, the annual international AIDS Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada. AIDS 2022, the 24th International AIDS Conference, will call on the world to come together [...]

About a third of all HIV diagnoses are diagnosed at General Practices. Nevertheless, previous research has shown that many moments when an HIV test could have been offered are insufficiently seen [...]

On Thursday February 24th, the NOVA participants meeting took place. The NOVA Cohort Study started in 2015, and studies the effects of very early treatment on characteristics of the immune system [...]

After years of dedication as a researcher, Dr. Hanne Zimmerman successfully defended her PhD titled “HIV prevention in the biomedical era: A psychosocial investigation among men who have sex with [...]

After years of dedication as medical researcher at the Infectious Diseases Department of both the AMC and the GGD Amsterdam, on 10 December 2021, Dr. Maartje Dijkstra successfully defended her [...]

The Last Mile: targeted prevention and testing strategies for people with a late-stage HIV infection in Amsterdam – participatory community research using human centered design 32 hours per [...]

As restrictions regarding COVID-19 in the Netherlands have eased, the H-TEAM was able to meet in-person again for the first time in over one and a half year. In light of this, the meeting focused [...]

From 14 till 17 July 2021 the STI & HIV World Congress took place. This bi-annual meeting is dedicated to STI in its broadest sense and this year’s theme was “Sexual Diversity and the City”. [...]

In 2012, at a barbecue of the infectious diseases department of the AMC, Joep Lange and Godelieve de Bree met for the first time. At the time, Godelieve was finishing her specialization as an [...]

  In May of this year, our colleague Antony Oomen will say goodbye to the H-TEAM because of his retirement. Antony was closely involved in the establishment of the H-TEAM in the form of an [...]

H-TEAM @ Showcase Impactfestival 2021 On 20 January 2021, Impact 2021 will take place. During this online event prominent scientists and other speakers will discuss the impact of Dutch science on [...]

H-TEAM @ NCHIV & Nationaal Congres Soa*Hiv*Seks 2020 H-TEAM @ NCHIV 2020 On Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 November, the 13th annual Netherlands Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, [...]

In the last year, the H-TEAM has decided to, even more than before, increase the involvement of the City of Amsterdam and the community in developing and implementing novel projects, and [...]

On 22 September 2020, Liza Coyer and Elske Hoornenborg were awarded with the PhD Publication Award 2019 by the AMC Graduate School. They received the award for their article on sexual behavior [...]

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 [...]