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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By design, capacity building is a fundamental part of the UNIVERSAL project. The aim of the project’s capacity building activities are to improve the ability of African and European young…

In 2016 the Early-treated Perinatally HIV-infected individuals: Improving Children’s Actual Life (EPIICAL) consortium began gathering scientists and clinicians specialising in paediatric HIV to work towards establishing new, scientific efforts on…

Great day for the D3 study, today. The first 2 children have been screened for the study at the Prapokklao Hospital in Thailand. Thanks to the MRC CTU and the…

Our interactive course PentaTr@ining 2022: ‘HIV & other Congenital Infections’ kicks off today! The innovative online programme comprises 6 interactive and in-depth training modules, a wide variety of real-life clinical cases for…

An article by investigators within the ODYSSEY trial has been published as Open Access into BMC Medical Research Methodology. The investigators aimed to evaluate a treatment effect in a pre-defined subgroup…

The results of an ODYSSEY pharmacokinetic sub-study investigating dolutegravir (DTG) based antiretroviral (ARV) treatments for children weighing 3 to less than 20kg have recently been published in The Lancet HIV as an…

PentaTr@ining (formerly ‘Tr@inforPedHIV’) is a groundbreaking training platform for healthcare professionals caring for children, adolescents and pregnant women living with infectious diseases – with a particular focus on HIV and…

The WHO have developed a Paediatric ARV dosing dashboard which aims to support health care workers, researchers and policy makers in decisions around ARV dosing for children.

On 24 February 2022, the Russian government deployed its military into its neighboring country, Ukraine. In these dark hours, we are tormented by the thought of our Ukrainian friends, the…

On March 1, 2022, the GAP-f network held a virtual event to launch its ambitious three-year strategy, spanning from 2022-2024. Through this event, the network solidified the WHO’s commitment to…

On 26-28 January the VERDI General Assembly Meeting took place – an exciting 3-day online event bringing together experts in infectious diseases from the EU and beyond. The aim was…

New foundation: The European Clinical Research Alliance for Infectious Diseases has begun Utrecht, Tuesday 15 February 2022 – In January 2022,

The REACH Consortium has just published the results of a multi-centre survey, aimed at assessing the uptake of Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for the treatment of HCV in children and adolescents…

We are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for our interactive training course ‘PentaTr@ining 2022: HIV & other Congenital Infections‘. Building on the remarkable success of the previous…

The Penta Aperitivo webinars are here to keep you up to date with the latest Penta activities and on the new developments on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases in children.

At the end of 2021, LAB-Net provided training on the sampling and microbiology procedures to all five sites taking part in the microbiology sub-study in the Paediatric Community Acquired Pneumonia…

The digital platform will educate young people and provide real-world data for collaborative research on pandemics.   Barcelona, 27 January 2022. Despite the many advances in the global fight against…

Penta is proud to be a partner in the Horizon Europe funded “RBD Dimer recombinant protein vaccine against SARSCoV2” (RBDCOV) project. Within the project we will be bringing our paediatric…