🆕Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial: Evaluating & Enhancing an Educational Intervention to Reduce Smallholder Farmers’ Exposure to Pesticides in Uganda Through a Digital, Systematic Approach
Samuel Fuhrimann Hanna-Andrea Rother
Swiss TPH Aggrey Atuhaire researchprotocols.org/2024/1/e55238

A study of the Intensified Mission Indradhanush, a periodic intensification of routine immunization in India, found that it was impactful and cost-effective for improving vax coverage, though with uncertainty in the results: ow.ly/5QKl50RBKIE

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Swiss TPH

Tools like #PulseOximeters empower #HealthWorkers to identify critically-ill children & refer them for treatment without delay.

How do we improve access?

JOIN US to hear the latest findings from #India #Kenya #Senegal & #Tanzania 👉bit.ly/3wpxotn

#InvestInOxygen #TIMCI

MILESTONE:
HIV-positive individuals less likely to spread TB 🦠

🔍 New findings of a study by ETH Zurich, Makerere University, Case Western Reserve, Swiss TPH, UCT, and @Ifakarahealth have shown that people living with HIV are less likely to spread TB compared to those without the virus.

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Led by Rwanda Basic Education Board, UNFPA🇷🇼, along with partners like UNESCOEastAfrica, Imbuto Foundation, HDI Rwanda, AfriYAN Rwanda, Swiss TPH, FAWE Rwanda, and others, are meeting in Musanze to review & enhance Rwanda's Comprehensive Sexuality Education ( #CSE ) toolkit for lower and upper secondary schools.

📢 No te pierdas el simposio: Contexto, determinantes y soluciones
🎙️ Invitados nacionales e internacionales. Participa Junta de Beneficencia y Swiss TPH con el apoyo de Being
Registro: bit.ly/3JS4EMV
#SaludMentalJuvenil #Innovación #SaludPública #Jóvenes #beinginitiative

As part of Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium, we are pleased to share another milestone in the fight against #Schistosomiasis :
💊The consortium's new pediatric treatment option for preschool-aged children has officially been included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s List of Prequalified Medicines!
pediatricpraziquantelconsortium.org/newsroom/who-i…

Heartfelt congratulations to Sonja Merten for being appointed adjunct professor by University of Basel!

Sonja Merten leads the research unit on Society, Gender & Health at Swiss TPH.

🍲 HEALTHY LIFE:
Addressing undernutrition risk factors among schoolchildren

🧒 Childhood undernutrition among schoolchildren is a critical issue that needs attention, underscores a recent study, led by scientists from @Ifakarahealth in collaboration with Swiss TPH and…

📺: Get to know the DRTB-HDT project team!
The EU-funded project will determine if two adjunctive host-directed therapies can prevent the poor outcomes of treatment in cases of RIF-R TB.

🔗youtu.be/r1UqjYB0lbI
Swiss TPH Universität München FZ Borstel Instituto Nacional de Saúde – INS Wits Health

FiBL and Swiss TPH strengthen cooperation 🤝
Last week FiBL staff visited Swiss TPH in Basel to discuss future collaborations. We look forward to future joint work on the topics of Agricultural Health and Nutrition.

#AgriculturalHealth #Nutrition #Collaboration #OneHealth

When epidemiologists become detectives 🕵️‍♀️🦠
Helena Greter, Leader of the Competence Centre for Epidemiological Outbreak Investigations, shares about how they investigate a #DiseaseOutbreak & how it compares to detective work 💬
Read the interview here: bit.ly/3UOZd7T

📢We have exciting news: our new pediatric treatment option for preschool-aged children with #schistosomiasis is now World Health Organization (WHO)-prequalified!

pediatricpraziquantelconsortium.org/newsroom/who-i…

#BeatNTDs #OneStepCloser EDCTP GHIT Fund (グローバルヘルス技術振興基金)

In a nationwide cohort study, we find an increased risk of dying with #diabetes in relation to road and railway #noise .
We meta-analysed our results with all previous studies:
➡️consistent association between diabetes and transportation noise.
ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Ever heard of #appleyspaghettis #chesttoast or #blackboxes ?! WE DID!

Global & digital health experts came for a 2-day workshop: how to leverage #AI for the design & implementation of health decision support systems with focus on low resource settings.
EPFL Yale University World Health Organization (WHO) Swiss TPH

Join us at the #GHF2024 Conference on health as a common good to connect with key stakeholders shaping the future of #GlobalHealth !

🗓 27-29 May
📍 Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva

Programme & registration: bit.ly/3UmzlyJ

🎥 Quiz #3 zum #WeltMalariaTag ist raus: 'Gibt es Malaria in der Schweiz?' Unser Präsident Manuel Hetzel 🕊 von Swiss TPH beleuchtet die faszinierende Geschichte der Malaria in der Schweiz und zeigt die Rolle der 🇨🇭 im weltweiten Kampf gegen Malaria auf. #gemeinsamgegenmalaria