Key contributions by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute towards new and better drugs for tropical diseases (Publications)
Thanks to its expertise in clinical research, epidemiology, infectious diseases, microbiology, parasitology, public health, translational research and tropical medicine, coupled with deeply rooted par
The first case series of malaria overlapped with COVID-19 in Iran (Publications)
Introduction: Although indigenous malaria cases have dramatically declined over the past decades, the COVID pandemic has continued to affect the programs designed to combat malaria, particularly in th
Global health essentials (Publications)
This practical and handy textbook offers a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the main challenges, issues and solutions in global health in relation to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Health system financing (Publications)
Health financing, one of the key building blocks of health systems, involves three interrelated functions—revenue mobilization, pooling funds, and purchasing health services. This chapter develops fou
Health systems resilience (Publications)
Health systems need to continue functioning and providing essential health services, even when they experience challenges that threaten their ability to do so. Resilience describes the ability for hea
Development and evaluation of PlasmoPod: a cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test for rapid malaria diagnosis and surveillance (Publications)
Malaria surveillance is hampered by the widespread use of diagnostic tests with low sensitivity. Adequate molecular malaria diagnostics are often only available in centralized laboratories. PlasmoPod
Epidemiology of Hansen’s disease (Publications)
This chapter presents a current discussion on the epidemiology of HD-based standardized indicators of the burden of disease—incidence, prevalence, relapse—combined with indicators related to operation
HIV testing and knowledge on mother-to-child transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Vanga hospital, Democratic Republic of... (Publications)
Background. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes an infectious disease that can be transmitted from an infected mother to child. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs provid