Community-based tuberculosis triage testing after symptom screening in hard-to-reach African populations: CAD4TB versus C-reactive protein (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/community-based-tuberculosis-triage-testing-after-symptom-screening-in-hard-to-reach-african-populations-cad4tb-versus-c-reactive-protein
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a poverty-related disease which particularly affects vulnerable and underserved populations. Community-based TB triage testing as an integral part of multi-disease hea
Stratified Host-Directed Therapy for Rifampicin-Resistant TB: A Randomized Controlled Multi-Centre Trial (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/stratified-host-directed-therapy-for-rifampicin-resistant-tb-a-randomized-controlled-multi-centre-trial
Tuberculosis (TB) has historically been the most common infectious cause of death globally, surpassed only recently (and presumably temporarily) by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. TB treatment is lengt
SAPALDIA program (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/sapaldia-program
The SAPALDIA cohort investigates since 1991 the effects of life style and environment on the chronic diseases and aging in adults of the Swiss general population. The SAPALDIA study participants have
Impact of duration of antibiotic therapy and of oral step-down to amoxicillin or co-amoxiclav on effectiveness, safety and selection of antimicrobial... (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/impact-of-duration-of-antibiotic-therapy-and-of-oral-step-down-to-amoxicillin-or-co-amoxiclav-on-effectiveness-safety-and-selection-of-antimicrobial-resistance-in-severe-and-very-severe-childhood-community-acquired-pneumonia-cap-a-randomised-controlle
Antibiotics are key to managing childhood pneumonia, especially severe/very severe pneumonia, which remains a leading cause of hospitalisation in lower/middle income countries. WHO recommends children
More responsive immunization services through tailoring for hard-to-reach populations in Chad (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/more-responsive-immunization-services-through-tailoring-for-hard-to-reach-populations-in-chad
The main goal of the study is to identify potential strategies to tailor immunization services to reach nomadic communities in Chad. The objectives of our study are: (i) To assess the feasibility and
Internationale Zusammenarbeit und Globale Gesundheit (former ATK) (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/internationale-zusammenarbeit-und-globale-gesundheit-former-atk
Der Allgemeine Tropenkurs ist ein 8-wöchiger, ganztägiger Kurs, welcher auf das Leben und Arbeiten in Ländern mit extremer Mittelknappheit vorbereitet. Der Kurs ist von der Universität Basel akkrediti
Global-Partnership-Initiated-Biosecurity-Academia for Controlling Health Threats (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/global-partnership-initiated-biosecurity-academia-for-controlling-health-threats
The Global Partnership Initiated Biosecurity Academia for Controlling Health Threats (GIBACHT) is a multilateral one-year biosafety and biosecurity part-time training programme. GIBACHT started in 201
Joint South Africa and Swiss Chair in Global Environmental Health (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/joint-south-africa-and-swiss-chair-in-global-environmental-health
This first South African-Swiss bilateral research chair on Global Environmental Health in Cape Town addresses emerging environmental health problems in South Africa. The collaboration consists of four
A pyridyl-furan series developed from the Open Global Health Library block red blood cell invasion and protein trafficking in <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
With the resistance increasing to current antimalarial medicines, there is an urgent need to discover new drug targets and to develop new medicines against these targets. We therefore screened the Ope
Impact of COVID-19 on the utilization of HIV testing and linkage services in Sierra Leone: experience from three public health facilities in Freetown (Publications)
The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the delivery of essential health services globally. In this study, we aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on HIV testing and linkage services at three p