Major Projects
The following projects of the ISPM will be presented on own websites:
- ART Cohort Collaboration
The ART Cohort Collaboration, which includes 19 cohort studies from Europe and North America, was established to estimate prognosis of HIV-1 infected, treatment naïve patients initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART).
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- CANUPIS
During the last 20 years several studies have addressed the question whether people living in the vicinity of nuclear power plants are exposed to health risks. One focus of these investigations has been childhood cancer, since children are more susceptible to ionizing radiation than adults.
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- IeDEA
This IeDEA initiative will establish international regional centers for the collection and harmonization of data and the establishment of an international research consortium to address unique and evolving research questions in HIV/AIDS currently unanswerable by single cohorts. IeDEA Southern Africa is part of the IeDEA initiative and includes cohorts from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia.
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- KIDSCREEN
The KIDSCREEN project aimed at a cooperative European development of a standardised screening instrument for children's quality of life. Three instruments, KIDSCREEN-52, KIDSCREEN-27 and KIDSCREEN-10 index, were developed simultaneously in the participating countries. These new instruments assess quality of life from the child's perspective in terms of physical, mental and social well-being and can be used in health services research and health reporting. The KIDSCREEN instruments help to identify children at risk in terms of their subjective health and to suggest appropriate early interventions.
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- The Leicestershire & Rutland Cohort Studies
The 1970's and 1980's saw a large increase in the prevalence of asthma and other allergic disordres in children. The reasons remain unclear. To learn more it is essential to carry out long term studies on subjects, preferably from birth. In Europe several of these "since birth" studies on asthma and lung diseases have been initiated over the last two decades.
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- STROBE
STROBE stands for an international, collaborative initiative of epidemiologists, methodologists, statisticians, researchers and journal editors involved in the conduct and dissemination of observational studies, with the common aim of STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology.
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- Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry
The Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry is a national, population-based cancer registry for children. It collects data on new cancer diagnoses and concurrent medical conditions and documents the treatment and long term follow-up. Through this it contributes to understanding causes of cancer diseases in children with the ultimate goal to prevent them, and it helps to continuously improve treatments and increase cure rates while aiming to avoid or minimise late effects.
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- Swiss HIV Cohort Study
This Study is an ongoing multi-center research project dealing with HIV infected adults aged 16years or older.
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- Swiss National Cohort Study
The Swiss National Cohort (SNC) is a long-term, census-based, multipurpose cohort and research platform. It is based on the linkage of individual data from the Census 1990 to the Census 2000. This basic database has been enhanced with information from the mortality records from 1991 up to 2005. Because in Switzerland we lack of an individual identifier, the method of probabilistic record linkage was used to assign a record from the mortality statistic to a record in the Census data.
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- TB-Network
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains a major public-health problem worldwide, especially in the context of the HIV epidemic and the spread of drug-resistant TB. The disease manifestation of human infection with M. tuberculosis is extremely variable, ranging from lifelong asymptomatic infection to active lung disease and life-threatening meningitis. Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) substantially increases the lifetime risk of active TB.
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