AIGHD Publications
Daily struggles, shifting moods: The short-term dynamics of income and depression
Authors/summary: N Aksünger, W Janssens, M Pradhan - 2025 - econstor.eu
A bi-directional relationship between poverty and mental health may create a vicious cycle, wherein economic hardship and psychological distress reinforce each other. We examine …
A Biomarker Profile Reflective of Preserved Thymic Function Is Associated With Reduced Comorbidities in Aging People With HIV: An AGEhIV Cohort Analysis
Authors/summary: MC Vanbellinghen, A Boyd, NA Kootstra… - The Journal of …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background People with HIV (PWH) experience a higher burden of aging-associated comorbidities, the underlying mechanisms of which remain to be fully elucidated …
GOOD DIGESTION: The Metabolic Politics of Dutch Dairy Farming
Authors/summary: E Vogel - Cultural Anthropology, 2025 - journal.culanth.org
In the Netherlands, what dairy cows eat, produce, and excrete is meticulously recorded and controlled. While farmers optimize cows' diets for production, the side effects of this industrial …
Cost-effectiveness of Targeted Next Generation Sequencing for TB drug-resistance testing as an alternative to the standard of care in South Africa
Authors/summary: A de Nooy, SV Omar, T Ockhuisen, A Zwerling… - medRxiv, 2025 - medrxiv.org
Background South Africa faces emerging resistance to key TB drugs, including bedaquiline. Phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (pDST), the current reference standard for bedaquiline …
Enterococcus and Eggerthella species are enriched in the gut microbiomes of COVID-19 cases in Uganda
Authors/summary: C Agudelo, DP Kateete, E Nasinghe, R Kamulegeya… - Gut Pathogens, 2025 - Springer
Background Infection with the COVID-19-causing pathogen SARS-CoV-2 is associated with disruption in the human gut microbiome. The gut microbiome enables protection against …