2019 Swiss human rights award to Prof. Dr. Ruedi Lüthy
The Swiss section of the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM-CH) grants the 2019 Swiss human rights award to Prof. Dr. Ruedi Lüthy. For the past 25 years, the IGFM-CH has granted the Swiss human rights award to people that reached outstanding achievements regarding the improvement of human rights. This year the committee decided to […]
obituary Dr. Joseph Jost
Dear all, It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of our dear colleague Dr. Joseph “Seppi” Jost. He died suddenly and unexpectedly during the ECCMID meeting in Amsterdam last week. Seppi was a highly talented and dedicated ID physician, a pioneer of HIV medicine in Switzerland and instrumental in setting […]
change in the staff of the SHCS coordination centre
We would like to announce a change in the staff of the SHCS coordination centre. Mirjam Minichiello will leave the SHCS at the end of July 2018 after 6 years of dedicated work for the cohort. It was a great pleasure to work with Mirjam. We highly appreciated her warm and open-hearted personality as well […]
Congratulations to Gilles Wandeler!
It is with great pleasure that we can inform you that Gilles Wandeler, MD from the Inselspital Bern, received one of the highly competitive SNF professorships for his project Towards the functional cure of hepatitis B virus infection Congratulations to Gilles Wandeler! Great to have you on board Gilles, and we wish you all the […]
Good bye, Bruno!
Unbelievable but Bruno Ledergerber has retired on 30th November 2017. Bruno was a cornerstone of the SHCS since it was started in 1988. In fact, it was Bruno who set up the SHCS database and, has created the first questionnaires (3 pages in 1988 and 20 pages now) at the Division of Infectious Diseases at […]
Great thanks to Christoph Rudin!
As senior physician in Basel, Christoph Rudin was confronted with the first children with HIV infection in Switzerland. In recognition of the need for a systematic description of HIV infection in childhood and during pregnancy, he founded the Swiss Collaborative HIV and Pregnancy Study in 1989. Ten years later, in 1999, the Swiss Mother and […]
enrollment of the 20’000th patient in the SHCS
Dear all, We proudly announce the inclusion of the 20’000th patient in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study. In the last three decades, the SHCS participants attended together almost 300’000 visits, some patients had over 70 study visits. Patients enrolled in the SHCS represent at least 50% of the overall epidemic in Switzerland, 75% of AIDS […]
a deputy for the head of the SHCS data centre
Dear all, It is a great pleasure to announce that Armelle Forrer, PhD in Epidemiology has started to work in August as a postdoctoral researcher in my research group. She is paid by my own research funds and will primarily work on some of my/our research projects. However, she will work at the SHCS data centre […]
successful migration of the SHCS database from Lausanne to Zurich!
Dear members and friends of the SHCS, The very important and almost last step of the transfer of the SHCS data center from Lausanne to Zurich has happened at the end of the year: the migration of the database was successful! This was a difficult undertaking and only possible by the help of many highly […]
the FOPH supports the SHCS with CHF 300’000
On 1st of December 2016, the World AIDS day, the SHCS obtained the final note that the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) will support the SHCS with CHF 300’000.- for the year 2016. This is the result from almost two years of negotiations between FOPH and SHCS to start a collaboration. The FOPH has […]