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May, 2019
The Biannual Penta ID Network Meeting (PIM) is once again upon us! Baveno, nestled on the picturesque Lago Maggiore (Italy), welcomes researchers, clinicians and leading international experts in the field of Paediatric Infectious Diseases to discuss relevant scientific topics connected with Penta’s activities worldwide.
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May, 2019
Members of Penta were delighted to be invited to attend the recent reception to celebrate the announcement of the Takeda Chair in Global Child Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
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May, 2019
On Tuesday 24th September, the Infection Prevention Disease Society event IP2019 in Liverpool will host the one-day conference: Infection Prevention in Paediatrics: ‘Hand in Hand’- working together for children.
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Apr, 2019
On April 5th-7th Padova (Italy) hosted the Global Health Festival. The aim of the festival was to investigate scientific progress and explore technological advances and policies that let the right to health to be increasingly universal and inclusive, in every corner of the world.
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Mar, 2019
The first edition of the Global Health Festival (‘Festival della Salute Globale’) is to take place in Padova, Italy on 5th-7thApril 2019. In partnership with Comune di Padova, Università degli Studi di Padova and Medici con l’Africa CUAMM, the event will take an unconventional look at the fundamental issues concerning global health today. Through an interactive programme, the public is invited to consider the broader social, environmental, economic and cultural conditions when evaluating the health of an individual or community.
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Mar, 2019
The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held on 4-7 March 2019, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. At this year’s event, EPIICAL team member Sara Dominguez Rodriguez delivered an engaging oral presentation on the earliest antiretroviral therapy initiation in infants.
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Mar, 2019
The ODYSSEY project team members Pauline Bollen and Anna Turkova successfully presented a poster with the results of an important pharmacokinetic sub-study on the use of adult Dolutegravir 50mg tablets in children living with HIV and weighing 20-25kg. The poster session took place at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle.
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Mar, 2019
Seattle is gearing up for the 2019 edition of CROI next week. Held at Washington State Convention Center on 4th-7th March, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is an important event in the Penta calendar, and in particular for the EPIICAL consortium, as it is an opportunity for members to discuss the latest developments pertaining to the project. Included on the agenda, EPIICAL project researchers will make an oral presentation illustrating recent results that provide further evidence that supports the earliest ART initiation in infants.
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Feb, 2019
Last week saw the EMPIRICAL project get off to a great start with the Kick-off Meeting held in Lusaka, Zambia on 19th-20th February. Various items were discussed on the agenda over a productive 2 days, including Penta’s role as project partner lead for Regulatory & Ethics issues, and Communications dissemination. The meeting also included a site visit to the University Teaching Hospital – Children’s Hospital.
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Feb, 2019
Today St. Petersburg welcomes over 40 partners for the REACH Kick-off Meeting (11th-12th February). REACH is a H2020 project, approved and funded by the European Commission, and coordinated by Penta. It will focus on the global health response to the epidemics of HIV, HCV and TB in pregnant women, children and adolescents in Russia and the broader European region.