The raison d’être of Anesvad is to improve the health of the most neglected people and communities. A major ongoing quest is the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with a focus on skin NTDs through health system strengthening (HSS) from a human rights perspective. This is outlined in…

Noul Inc, a start-up from South Korea, has developed miLab(TM) platform which allows automated sample preparation to imaging and AI analysis, of small amounts of blood samples. The platform is of potential high interested to malaria control, namely malaria diagnostics in low- and middle-income…

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most important global health problems. With the COVID-19 pandemic receding, TB is once again the number one cause of human mortality due to infection. Moreover, multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) are among the most frequent…

In 2018, the Gavi Board approved the inclusion of Rabies Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) into the portfolio of vaccines to be funded in the 2021-2025 strategic period. Various challenges were identified in relation to its operationalisation leading to the elaboration of the 2018 VIS Rabies learning…

The WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (WHO/MCA) will  coordinate a multi-country, multi-centre randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of approaches to prevent and manage growth faltering within the first 6 months of life on wasting-free survival…

At least one out of three to four women experiences vaginal health issues due to an unbalance of beneficial and harmful microbes. These microbes live in each vagina and are known as the vaginal microbiome. However, most women fear asking for help and are not aware of the army of microbes that…

The European Consortium "Antiviral Therapeutics for Rapid Response Against Pandemic Infectious Diseases" (AVITHRAPID) aims to support the search for novel broad-spectrum antiviral compounds by advancing multiple approaches. Building on a pre-existing set of bioactive small molecules, which are at…

In crisis areas, health systems struggle to serve refugee, internally displaced people (IDPs) and host populations. A particular concern are diseases linked to insufficient water, sanitation and hygiene. Schistosomiasis is part of this group and affects people of all ages, while women and girls are…

Development of a clinical algorithm (in English/French) providing clinical decision support to Médicins sans Frontières (MSF) staff in clinics caring for patients with sexually transmitted infections (STI).

Swiss TPH was commissioned by the Basel-Stadt Department of Health, in collaboration with the Basel-Stadt Office for Social Contributions, to conduct an external evaluation of the Basel health audio tool "Simply listen". This audio tool was developed to inform hard-to-reach groups about health…