SNSF Professorship Awarded to Melissa Penny (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/snsf-professorship-awarded-to-melissa-penny
“I’m excited that the SNSF will invest in my research, giving me the possibility to expand my group and pursue new directions,” said Penny. “With our work, we want to make the development of new medic
Open Source Health Insurance Initiative at DayOne Conference (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/open-source-health-insurance-initiative-at-dayone-conference
Every year, more than 150 million people face healthcare expenditures that are so high in relation to available income that they have a catastrophic effect on a household's financial well-being. In th
Barrierefreie Verständigung für Migrantinnen fördert Versorgung bei Schwangerschaft (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/20171010-bridge
In seinem Bestreben, einen Beitrag an die verbesserte Gesundheit der Menschen in der Welt zu leisten, forscht das Schweizerische Tropen- und Public Health-Institut (Swiss TPH) auch zu Fragen der Mutte
An Animated Cartoon against Parasitic Worm Infections (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/an-animated-cartoon-against-parasitic-worm-infections
'Koko et les lunettes magiques' tells the story of a boy who discovers the many ways in which parasitic worms infect people's bodies and make them suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhoea. The animate
Reduced Efficacy of Anthelmintic Drugs (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/20170926-reduced-efficacy-of-anthelmintic-drugs
Currently four main drugs are used to treat soil-transmitted helminthiasis: albendazole, mebendazole, levamisole and pyrantel pamoate. Over one billion tablets of albendazole or mebendazole are distri
Life Expectancy Increases in Switzerland (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/life-expectancy-increases-in-switzerland
Globally, countries made progress in avoiding the loss of lives due to premature death over the past decade, saving in particular lives of children under five, according to the annual Global Burden of
Parasitic Worms in Siberia (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/parasitic-worms-in-siberia
More than half of the population in endemic regions of the Western Siberia is infected with Opisthorchis felineus - or cat liver fluke - according to epidemiological studies conducted by the Swiss Tro
75 Years of Tropical Medicine in Switzerland (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/75-years-of-tropical-medicine-in-switzerland
Chronicle of Tropical Medicine in Switzerland On 31st August 2017, the Swiss Society of Tropical Medicine (SSTMP) held its 75th annual meeting in Basel. The society was founded on 5th December 1943, i
Tuberculosis Research Against "Super Resistant Bacteria" (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/20170905-tuberculosis-research
Antibiotic resistance represents an imminent threat to the health of the human population in low-resource settings as well in the Western world. A young man in Basel, for instance, developed an aggres
Combination Therapy to Treat Parasitic Worm Infections (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/20170829-combination-therapy-to-treat-parasitic-worm-infections
Parasitic worm infections are a major public health issue in low and middle-income countries. Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections affect 1.5 billion people globally. They are caused by differen
