A Tropical Disease in Switzerland: Call for Coordinated Action on Chagas Disease (News)
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Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi , affects about 7 to 8 million people worldwide, mainly in Latin America. The parasite can be transmitted by triatomine bugs, via food, blood t
Tuberculosis Strains Resistant to New Drugs Are Transmitted Between Patients (News)
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Multidrug-resistant TB is a major concern More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains the world’s biggest infectious disease killers with an estimated
Financial Support Significantly Improves Breastfeeding Success in Lao PDR (News)
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Exclusive breastfeeding provides vital nutrients that strengthen infants’ immune systems and support healthy growth. It also aids maternal recovery and reduces long-term health risks, including certai
New Digital Health Tool Improves Care for Children in Somalia (News)
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Tackling Somalia's child health crisis Somalia has one of the world’s highest child mortality rates, driven by decades of conflict, drought, and a fragile healthcare system. Preventable diseases like
ANTICOV: Clinical Trial for COVID-19 in Low-resource Settings to Test a New Drug Combination (News)
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The ANTICOV trial, currently conducted in 13 African countries and soon expanding to additional countries in South Asia and Latin America, aims to identify COVID-19 treatments that are optimized for u
EMA Recommends Arpraziquantel for Treatment of Schistosomiasis in Preschool-Aged Children (News)
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Today, the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive scientific opinion for a
Swiss TPH Symposium: Women and Gender in Global Health (News)
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Women worldwide face unequal conditions when it comes to their health. On the one hand, socio-cultural factors, such as unequal power relations between men and women, uneven educational and financial
R. Geigy Award 2024: Cutting-Edge Research to Control Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases in Côte D’Ivoire (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/r-geigy-award-2024-cutting-edge-research-to-control-communicable-and-non-communicable-diseases-in-cote-divoire
This year, the prestigious R. Geigy Award is presented to two research groups at the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS): epidemiologist and health economist Siaka Koné i
Children Not Less Active During COVID 19 Pandemic (News)
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SOPHYA ( S wiss Children's O bjectively Measured Phy sical A ctivity) is the first Swiss-wide long-term study that objectively measured the physical activity behaviour of children and adolescents. It
New Intervention Significantly Improved Mental Health Well-Being for Zambian Mothers (News)
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Mental health disorders, such as depression and anxiety, are becoming a growing challenge to global health, with women and low-income households being particularly affected. A previous study by Swiss
