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Support Our Research to Tackle Diseases of Poverty In 2020, the average life expectancy was 73 years – fifty years earlier, it was around 60 years. We owe this spectacular increase in life expectancy
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Help us Reduce Emerging Health Risks The state of our environment has a significant influence on our health and well-being. A high quality of life goes thus hand in hand with a healthy environment and
Leading House Africa | Swiss TPH (Page)
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Leading House Africa The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has mandated the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)—supported by the University of Ba
Open Calls (Page)
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Open Calls We are pleased to announce that the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has renewed our Leading House Africa mandate for 2025–2028. We will soon provide updates
Physical Hazards and Health (Page)
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Group | Physical Hazards and Health Environmental Exposures and Health Environmental Exposure Modelling Physical Hazards and Health Sensoring and Environmental Epidemiology Man-made and natural physic
Noma: giving a face to a deadly disease (Page)
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Many people prefer to look the other way when it comes to this disease, as the sight of young children suffering from its effects is unbearable. It causes open wounds on the face and whole sections of
Elimination of Rabies (Page)
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Elimination of Rabies in N’Djamena - Chad Project Leader Jakob Zinsstag Project Team Monique Léchenne Group: One Health Unit: Human and Animal Health The Disease Rabies is a viral zoonosis causing ten
Fostering Research on Strongyloides stercoralis (Page)
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Fostering Research on Strongyloides stercoralis Satellite Symposium to the Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting 2025 The second Strongyloides meeting will be held at the University of Würzburg, Germany,
Neglected Tropical Diseases (Page)
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Neglected Tropical Diseases Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of conditions caused by a range of viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and toxins. They primarily affect impoverished
An old and almost forgotten disease persists | Swiss TPH Impact Stories (Page)
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Leprosy is described in literature of ancient civilisations and also existed in Europe. It was actually in Norway that a young doctor called Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered the bacteria Mycobacteriu
