COVID-19 pandemic and health related quality of life in primary school children in Switzerland: a repeated cross-sectional study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting containment measures had and still have a profound impact on everyday life. Both the fear of infection and the imposed restrictions can have biopsyc
Reproductive governance in a fragile and population-dense context: family planning policies, discourses, and practices in Burundi (Publications)
This article describes the reproductive governance deployed in Burundi, which promotes fertility control through uptake of modern contraceptives as a solution to the economic hardship and land pressur
Offering ART refill through community health workers versus clinic-based follow-up after home-based same-day ART initiation in rural Lesotho: the... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) dispensing by lay workers is an important differentiated service delivery model in sub-Sahara Africa. However, patients new in care are general
Global diversity and balancing selection of 23 leading <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>candidate vaccine antigens (Publications)
Investigation of the diversity of malaria parasite antigens can help prioritize and validate them as vaccine candidates and identify the most common variants for inclusion in vaccine formulations. Stu
HPV vaccine awareness, knowledge and information sources among youth in Switzerland: a mixed methods study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to provide a detailed characterisation of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine awareness, knowledge and information sources in the HPV vaccine decision-making process of youth, both
Impact of newly constructed primary healthcare centres on antenatal care attendance, facility delivery and all-cause mortality: quasi-experimental... (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Access to quality care remains limited, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Although better health outcomes for families living in close proximity to healthcare facilit
Exposure to ambient air pollution and cognitive decline: results of the prospective Three-City cohort study (Publications)
Background Growing epidemiological evidence suggests an adverse relationship between exposure to air pollutants and cognitive decline. However, there is still some heterogeneity in the findings, with
Mosquito net use in early childhood and survival to adulthood in Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that in high-transmission settings, malaria control in early childhood (
Leveraging electron-deficient iminium intermediates in a general synthesis of valuable amines (Publications)
The development of reactions converting alkenes and alkynes into valuable building blocks remains one of the main goals of synthetic chemistry. Herein, we present the leveraging of highly electron-def
Assessing the effects of mining projects on child health in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The African continent hosts many industrial mining projects, and many more are planned due to recent prospecting discoveries and increasing demand for various minerals to promote a low-car
