Improving the HIV care cascade in Lesotho: Towards 90-90-90 - A research collaboration with the Ministry of Health (Projects)
Background Despite enormous progress in the last decade, HIV/AIDS remains the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in most countries of Southern Africa and a central contributor to economic
Air quality in Tehran, Iran: Evaluating acute health effects and modeling the long-term spatial variability (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/air-quality-in-tehran-iran-evaluating-acute-health-effects-and-modeling-the-long-term-spatial-variability
Air pollution in low- and middle-income countries is higher and from different sources than air pollution in high-income countries, where most exposure and epidemiologic research has been done. The bu
Improving antichagasic drug discovery through stage-specific monitoring of Trypanosoma cruzi (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/improving-antichagasic-drug-discovery-through-stage-specific-monitoring-of-trypanosoma-cruzi
About 6-7 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi , a protozoan parasite causing Chagas’ disease. Most of the symptoms appear in the chronic phase of Chagas’ disease: cardiomyopathies and m
Moxidectin for Strongyloidiasis (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/moxidectin-for-strongyloidiasis
The overarching goal of this project is to assemble for the first time key data on the safety and efficacy and pharmacokinetics of moxidectin for the treatment of strongyloidiasis. We propose to condu
Switch Either near Suppression Or THOusand – switch to second-line versus WHO-guided standard of care for unsuppressed patients on first-line ART with... (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/switch-either-near-suppression-or-thousand-switch-to-second-line-versus-who-guided-standard-of-care-for-unsuppressed-patients-on-first-line-art-with-viremia-below-1000-copies/ml-a-multicenter-open-label-randomized-clinical-trial
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends viral load (VL) measurement as the preferred monitoring strategy for HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limi
Effect of Offering ART refill through community health workers versus clinic-based follow-up after home-based same-day ART initiation in rural... (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/effect-of-offering-art-refill-through-community-health-workers-versus-clinic-based-follow-up-after-home-based-same-day-art-initiation-in-rural-lesotho-the-vibra-cluster-randomized-clinical-trial
Background Community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) dispensing by lay workers is an important differentiated service delivery model in sub-Sahara Africa. However, patients new in care are generall
Microbiota-Targeted Interventions for Childhood Undernutrition (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/microbiota-targeted-interventions-for-childhood-undernutrition
With roughly 150 million children affected, undernutrition remains one of the most important public health threats. A meta-analysis of more than 50.000 children living in Latin America, Asia and Afric
WB Niger WASH Cash transfer - Impact Evaluation Endline Survey Integrated WASH/Cash Transfer Program in Niger (Sahel Adaptive Safety Net Program) (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/wb-niger-wash-cash-transfer-impact-evaluation-endline-survey-integrated-wash/cash-transfer-program-in-niger-sahel-adaptive-safety-net-program
In 2017, SCIH/Swiss TPH was mandated by the World Bank with the implementation of the survey “Baseline Survey for the Impact Evaluation of the Integrated WASH/Cash Transfer program in Niger”, and has