EMA Recommends Arpraziquantel for Treatment of Schistosomiasis in Preschool-Aged Children (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/ema-recommends-arpraziquantel-for-treatment-of-schistosomiasis-in-preschool-aged-children
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)
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
Children Will Experience Four Times More Extreme Events Due to Climate Change (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/children-will-experience-four-times-more-extreme-events-due-to-climate-change
Children and adolescents are especially vulnerable to climate change due to their developing bodies and immune systems. Extreme heat affects them more severely, making them more susceptible to dehydra
First Malaria Vaccine Recommended for Children by the WHO (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/first-malaria-vaccine-recommended-for-children
The World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed the widespread use of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01, marking the first step in a process that should lead to broad distribution in low- and middle-income
TB-PRACTECAL: Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/tb-practecal-clinical-trial-yields-promising-results-for-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-treatment
TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with partners including Swiss TPH, has found that a new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treatin
New WHO Air Quality Guidelines Aim to Save Millions of Lives from Air Pollution (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/new-who-air-quality-guidelines-aim-to-save-millions-of-lives-from-air-pollution
Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, alongside climate change. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published their new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs)
Students Return to Swiss TPH (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/students-return-to-swiss-tph
Education and training at Swiss TPH has a history as old as the institute itself. Since the first course—the General Tropical Course—was offered in 1944, education and training activities multiplied q
