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'Latent class analysis of barriers to HIV testing services and associations with sexual behaviour and HIV status among adolescents and young adults in Nigeria'
Sexual & Reproductive Health Group at ITM Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp PLOS ONE
UAntwerpen Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu, MD, CTropMed
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🔬 Are you passionate about parasites and eager to lead groundbreaking research, shape future generations of scientists, and contribute to global health initiatives? We're looking for a Professor Experimental Parasitology. Apply or share with your network! itg.be/en/jobs-and-re…

🪱🔬 Another episode of Who's that parasite?! instagram.com/reel/C55nvjVt6…

🇷🇴 Exciting visit from the Romanian Ambassador and delegation, highlighting synergy between health & education. We believe in nurturing collaborations for scientific progress & mutual understanding. Let's work together for a healthy future! 🤝🌍 #ITMNetwork #HealthForAll

In PLOS NTDs, collab with University of Global Health Equity University of Leeds Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences

The Vicious Worm education tool improves knowledge of community health workers on Taenia solium cysticercosis, Rwanda

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Funded by Medical Research Council CGIAR 🇧🇪 Belgium MFA FWO

Important and concerning finding by ⁦Laurens Liesenborghs⁩⁦Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Antwerpen⁩ ⁦and colleagues. A new strain of #mpox (clade 1b) identified in #DRC that appears to be better at spreading between people, predominantly via sexual contact. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Sustained Human Outbreak of a New MPXV Clade I Lineage in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

A worrying outbreak in Eastern DRC of sexually transmitted clade I MPXV. If not tackled quickly, this might lead to a new multicountry mpox outbreak!

Interested in Trypanosoma cruzi, genome instability and drug tolerance? PhD in @ITMAntwerp working with
@DujardinBioMed, @martinllewellyn, Malgorzata Anna Domagalska on #Chagas , #genomics and #singlecell . itg.be/en/jobs-and-re… Deadline 29/04!!

Role playing at the clinical decision-making session at Day 2 of our SCREM course with Emmanuel Bottieau. 'A young male adult with cough' 😷

Thank you to Prof Marjolein Zweekhorst and Dr Dirk Essink from Athena Institute at VU Amsterdam for your visit to Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp last week!

We look forward to future collaborations in education and research. A great PhD supervision meeting for Dr Christelle Boyi from Cerrhud!

You often use Google Maps on your phone to estimate the time to get to a certain place. What if the same technology was used to estimate travel time to emergency obstetric care facilities in urban areas?

See Tackling In-transit delays 4 Mothers in Emergency's new paper #Geographical accessibility to functional…

🚗🚨 In many African cities, access to emergency obstetric care is a race against time for pregnant women. Until now, models that calculate travel time have not accurately reflected the reality in those cities. Our latest #innovation , powered by Google Health, sheds light on the…

We loved hosting NPEU-Oxford colleagues Dr Manisha Nair, Uchenna Gwacham and Yebeen Ysabelle Boo!

Thank you for presenting your impressive MaatHRI network, PhD research, and preparing for a collaboration with Aliki Christou on framework of perinatal routine data transition! 🤞

Starting a new cohort of our Short Course on Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine (SCREM) Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp!

Very happy to see this published! High adherence to intermittent and continuous use of a contraceptive vaginal ring among women in a randomized controlled trial in Kigali, Rwanda frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil Rinda Ubuzima Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Jody Phelan talked about his Malaria-Profiler at our VLIR-UOS course: a #bioinformatic pipeline that identifies origin & resistance profiles. Anita Ghansah gave her latest insights into how #Ghana tackles & monitors #malaria , emphasising the relevance of #molecular #surveillance !

Thoughtful #ethics review is essential for soundness, transparency, and accountability in #pharmaceutical development. Happy that Ana Lucía joined our Pharmaceutical #PublicHealth unit to contribute to strengthening and mutual learning in ethics review Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Exciting news! 🌍 We've welcomed partners from Mozambique's National Institute of Health, signing an MoU to boost collaboration in tropical medicine & public health research. Here's to impactful partnerships & shared progress!🤝 #ITMNetwork #GlobalHealth Instituto Nacional de Saúde – INS Lut Lynen

Home is where the heart is. That’s why we couldn’t resist visiting the laboratories of the Antwerp City Brewery ànd GSK. Because did you know, apart from beer, #Belgium also produces the RTS,S #vaccin ! We were lucky to go on-site and discuss the Global Health program! Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

🌍 Introducing Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp!

In RESTOREID, ITM detects pathogens critical for managing disease risks in restored environments.

Their expertise in host-pathogen dynamics sheds light on interactions within restored landscapes. 🦠🐾

#ITM #RESTOREID