Background: Switzerland’s healthcare system faces various pressures linked to an ageing population, the prevalence of chronic diseases, and workforce shortages. Responding to these challenges, the Réseau de l’Arc (RdA) was launched in 2024 as one of the country’s first integrated-care organisation.…

Ukraine has adopted a National Strategy to become a Barrier-Free Society by 2030 that defines rehabilitation as its cornerstone. Despite Russia’s full invasion in February 2022, the reform process has not wavered and rehabilitation is now a recognized, essential component of Universal Health…

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Access to modelling is a key support activity to help guide IVCC projects and partners, including supporting product design, development, and deployment of vector control interventions, such as ITNs, ATSBs, and SEs, the development of optimal IRM and IVM deployment strategies, and product…

Funded under the Horizon Europe call “Zero-Pollution Cities,” which contributes to the EU Mission “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030,” the project takes a holistic approach to support informed policymaking. It improves air pollution and noise monitoring and modelling, while also providing…

PREVENT-PE evaluates an innovative, affordable point-of-care rapid diagnostic test, préXclude, for early and late onset preeclampsia in LMIC settings. The préXclude test measures sFlt-1/PlGF ratios from a 20μL finger-prick blood sample, delivering results in 30 minutes with targeted costs of $2 per…

Significant progress in malaria control has been achieved through expanded vector control interventions, yet major challenges persist. Funding and coverage gaps, growing insecticide and drug resistance, declining intervention effectiveness, invasive mosquito species such as Anopheles stephensi, and…

Recent significant investments in malaria interventions have reduced malaria burden.
Contemporaneously, the climate has continued to warm with associated changes in rainfall and weather extremes, which compound year to year and decadal climate variability. Together these impact malaria transmission…

With 74% of deaths and over 75% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. In low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), primary care providers often lack sufficient training and resources to effectively diagnose and…

Ivermectin is a critical drug for the control and elimination of multiple neglected tropical diseases. Currently, children weighing under 15kg do not receive treatment with ivermectin due to an absence of safety data and the lack of a suitable paediatric formulation. Consequently, these children are…

With chest X-ray and molecular tests virtually absent at the primary healthcare care level, where most patients with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) present in sub-Saharan Africa, there is a need for accessible, affordable and scalable diagnostic tools for TB triage. CAD LUS4TB represents an…