Swiss TPH Symposium: Women and Gender in Global Health (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/swiss-tph-symposium-femmes-et-genre-dans-la-sante-mondiale
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/fr/news/news-detail-1/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)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/children-not-less-active-during-covid-19-pandemic
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)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/une-nouvelle-intervention-ameliore-le-bien-etre-mental-des-meres-zambiennes
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
154 Million Deaths Averted: Contribution of Vaccination over the Past 50 Years (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/154-million-deaths-averted-contribution-of-vaccination-over-the-past-50-years
In 1974, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), motivated by the progress made thanks to vaccination in eradicating smallpox. Now, 50 years later, W
CALINA Study Shows Positive Efficacy and Safety Data for a Novel Treatment for Small Babies (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/calina-study-shows-positive-efficacy-and-safety-data-for-a-novel-treatment-for-babies
Malaria exerts a massive burden on public health across the world, particularly in Africa. Huge strides have been made in recent decades in the treatment of malaria. However, to date, little data has
Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/accelerating-the-fight-against-malaria-world-malaria-day-2024
In the last few years, efforts to curb malaria have unfortunately been stalling. In 2022, over 600,000 people died from malaria, primarily children under the age of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. People liv
New Discovery Unravels Malaria Invasion Mechanism (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/une-nouvelle-decouverte-devoile-le-mecanisme-dinvasion-du-paludisme
With 249 million cases of malaria and 608,000 deaths in 2022, malaria has remained an intractable global health threat. The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is the leading cause of severe malari
Parasitic Worms and Liver Disease in Rural Laos (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/parasitic-worms-and-liver-disease-in-rural-laos
Shedding light on the SLD prevalence Steatotic Liver Disease (SLD), also known as fatty liver disease, is a condition characterised by the accumulation of fat in the liver cells. SLD normally does not
Integrated Care Conference in Kosovo (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/integrated-care-conference-in-kosovo
The conference, chaired by Manfred Zahorka, Head of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit at Swiss TPH, discussed the concepts of integrated and people-centred care with national and local stakehold
