pharmaceutical industries, its leading ethnological museum and its species-rich Zolli (zoo), had excellent connections to the ‘Dark Continent’ (the phrase commonly used to describe Africa at the time) and the Tropics [...] credit:e-newspaperarchives) The sum of these and other arguments won over the federal authorities, leading immediately to the foundation of a committee in Basel in early 1943. Thanks to close ties with the [...] organisation can only thrive on the basis of active research.”...
are bigger and more equitable than any treatment you can get at a doctor’s office.” Marloes Eeftens leads the Sensoring and Environment Epidemiology group at Swiss TPH. Her research explores how environmental [...] today? “As a public health institute, we have to ask ourselves: how can climate and health research lead to real change? I strongly believe our greatest impact is through policy-relevant data, such as informing [...] does it relate to climate change and health? “Rising temperatures...
Group | One Health Human and Animal Health One Health One Health East Africa The One Health group develops theoretical and methodological foundations for integrated human and animal health approaches. [...] Group Leader +41612848139 jakob.zinsstag@swisstph.ch Dog Rabies Elimination in West- and Central Africa The lives of humans who are bitten by rabid animals, mainly dogs, can be saved by timely application [...] health’ as a beneficiary of the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and...
Zanzibar On the Zanzibar islands (Unguja and Pemba) belonging to the United Republic of Tanzania in East Africa, our research focuses on transdisciplinary intervention approaches that can contribute to the in [...] The group has developed a special interest and expertise in helminthiases of Southeast Asian, East-Africa and Siberia (Russian Federation). Helminth Infections in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia with Laos [...] Strongyloides stercoralis ) and co-infections with soil-transmitted...
cattle among the mobile pastoralists in the Sahel zone. "One Health is a supply process that not only leads to the well-being of people and animals and thus to sustainable ecosystems, but also proves to be [...] sleeping sickness. His fascination with the pathogens of tropical diseases brought him to many places in Africa: to Cameroon and Liberia (1979), and later to Tanzania (1981-1984), where he became head of the then [...] Tanzania and Chad. He was instrumental in the development of malaria...
in the last 20 years. About Malaria Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria. This disease costs Africa 12 billion dollars (US) a year in health-care costs and lost productivity, particularly in the a [...] needed. The new compound ACT-451840 could play a central role in this endeavour. About MMV MMV is a leading product development partnership (PDP) in the field of antimalarial drug research and development
Effectiveness of a peer educator-coordinated preference-based differentiated service delivery model on viral suppression among young people living... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Southern and Eastern Africa is home to more than 2.1 million young people aged 15 to 24 years living with HIV. As compared with other age groups, this population group has poorer outcomes along [...] peer-coordinated care for young people living with HIV, compared to nurse-based care only, did not lead to conclusive evidence for an effect on viral suppression. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study (Publications)
49%) occurred in Asia. Eastern Europe had the highest heat-related excess death rate and Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess death rate. From 2000-03 to 2016-19, the global cold-related [...] and the global heat-related excess death ratio increased by 0.21 percentage points (0.13-0.31), leading to a net reduction in the overall ratio. The largest decline in overall excess death ratio occurred
Effectiveness of a peer educator-coordinated preference-based differentiated service delivery model on viral suppression among young people living... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Southern and Eastern Africa is home to more than 2.1 million young people aged 15 to 24 years living with HIV. As compared with other age groups, this population group has poorer outcomes along [...] peer-coordinated care for young people living with HIV, compared to nurse-based care only, did not lead to conclusive evidence for an effect on viral suppression. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study (Publications)
49%) occurred in Asia. Eastern Europe had the highest heat-related excess death rate and Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess death rate. From 2000-03 to 2016-19, the global cold-related [...] and the global heat-related excess death ratio increased by 0.21 percentage points (0.13-0.31), leading to a net reduction in the overall ratio. The largest decline in overall excess death ratio occurred
