Spring Symposium 2017 (Page)
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Better Health Swiss TPH Spring Symposium - 6 April 2017 - Parterre Rialto, Basel, Switzerland The Swiss TPH Spring Symposium 2017 invites public health policy makers, statisticians, global health specialists [...] Martin Hilber, Swiss TPH 11:30 Use of Computerised Health Services Monitoring Systems to Improve Policy Planning: Case Study from the Egyptian Health Care System, Martin Raab, Swiss TPH 12:00 The Truth [...] current evidence on how the use of data and information by decision makers can...
Appropriateness of malaria diagnosis and treatment for fever episodes according to patient history and anti-malarial blood measurement: a... (Publications)
Monitoring the impact of case management strategies at large scale is essential to evaluate the public health benefit they confer. The use of methodologies relying on objective and standardized endpoints [...] (383/1021) had detectable levels of anti-malarials in the blood. Of the individuals who sought care in health facilities, 69.4% (172/248) were tested and 52.0% (129/248) appropriately treated. When other providers [...] sampled population. Efforts should be made to increase rapid...
Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement (News)
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years. The panel was moderated by Christian Lengeler, Head of the Health Interventions Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH and President of the Swiss Malaria Group. Lengeler [...] from molecular tools and vaccines, to global product development and the importance of improving health systems. World Malaria Day 2023 at Swiss TPH Swiss TPH actively contributes to global malaria control [...] Hetzel, Effectiveness and Impact group leader, reflected on how...
Two Decades of Swiss Leadership for New Malaria Medicines (News)
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forward by Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and partners, have been pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO) or approved by stringent regulatory authorities. MMV was the first product development [...] scientific excellence and ability to attract new researchers. A long-standing commitment to promoting health as a basic human right. A highly innovative pharmaceutical industry willing to invest in the ‘diseases [...] Hosting of international organizations that pursue the fight...
New Antimalarial Drug Shows Promise (News)
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Town (UCT) in collaboration with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and other international researchers. "The ability of MMV048 to block all
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> merozoite surface protein 1 as asexual blood stage malaria vaccine candidate (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Malaria represents a tremendous public health challenge in tropical and sub-tropical regions, and currently deployed control strategies are likely insufficient to drive elimination of malaria
Effects of engaging communities in decision-making and action through traditional and religious leaders on vaccination coverage in Cross River State,... (Publications)
income countries (LMICs). Having identified traditional and religious leaders (TRLs) as potential public health change agents, this study aimed at assessing the effect of training them to support routine i
Scoping review of the inclusion of economic analysis in impact studies of natural resource extraction projects (Publications)
and minimise negative externalities. This paper aims to identify and characterise peer-reviewed publications that report on economic studies implemented as part of impact assessments of resource extraction [...] al and/or social impacts. Only one study investigated economic aspects associated with potential health impacts. Given the small number of papers identified, economic analysis of impacts associated with
Prevention of overweight and hypertension through cardiorespiratory fitness and extracurricular sport participation among South African schoolchildren (Publications)
Hypertension and overweight are growing public health concerns in school-aged children. We examined whether cardiorespiratory fitness and sport participation contribute to the prevention of hypertension
(+/-)-<em>trans</em>-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofurans as leishmanicidal agents: synthesis, <em>in vitro</em> evaluation and SAR analysis (Publications)
around the world, represents a threat to the life of millions of people, and therefore is a major public health problem. More effective and non-toxic new treatments are required, especially for visceral le
