We are proud to announce that on the 7th of December 2020, the PediCAP team at Makerere University at the China-Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru (Kampala, Uganda) recruited the very first…
Pablo Rojo, and Anna Turkova – members of Penta ID network have provided some rationale, and highlighted some challenges related to including adolescents in HIV clinical phase 3 trials of…
The Cascade of Care, more commonly known as the HIV care continuum, is a calculation of how many people in a specific population diagnosed with HIV are initially linked to…
The project ORCHESTRA aims to efficiently generate rigorous evidence to improve the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and to rapidly provide a structured platform to test vaccine as soon as…
Gianni Ferraretto, an Italian filmmaker, visited Kampala, Uganda three times between 2009 and 2019 to uncover the story of young people living with HIV.
On November 12th, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a positive opinion recommending marketing authorisation for dolutegravir 5mg dispersible tablets…
In the spirit of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, we’d like to share a summary of the findings from the “Implementation and Impact of Paediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: A Systematic Scoping…
Professor Irja Lutsar, a prominent and active member of the Penta network for many years, has been elected as Estonia’s Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women…
Louise Hill presented the findings of a NeoVanc sub-study at ESPID’s 2020 Virtual Meeting in late October. Below is a summary of the study and findings. Enterococcus (a bacterium) and…
Penta is the lead of the Clinical Research Working Group for the newly launched Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations (GAP-f), a network led by the World Health Organisation.
The c4c project, co-coordinated by Penta together with Janssen, Bayer and the University of Liverpool, has had its first review, titled “European research networks to facilitate drug research in children”,…
Authors: Elena Mozzo; Valentina Ortolan; Elena Badio; Federica Batterman; and Chiara Novello In October 2019, Penta began hosting HIV educational sessions in 5 high schools in Padova, Italy. From October…
Between February and May 2020, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we sent out a survey to all European paediatric sites within the Penta ID research network. The…
Now is the time to “Speak up for health worker safety!” Working in stressful environments makes health workers more prone to errors which can lead to patient harm.