Press Releases

Reducing antibiotic overuse in African hospitals through a new approach to paediatric care

30 Sep, 2025

Innovative risk-stratified care model aims to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, curb antimicrobial resistance and transform paediatric healthcare in resource-limited hospitals. Padova, Italy, 30 September 2025 PediSEP-1,
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PIPELINE: nuova collaborazione europea per affrontare le malattie infettive in gravidanza e nei neonati

28 Jan, 2025

PADOVA, ITALY, January 28, 2025 — Questa settimana la Fondazione Penta ETS ha ufficialmente lanciato il progetto PIPELINE, un’iniziativa all’avanguardia volta a migliorare la preparazione e la risposta alle infezioni che colpiscono…
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PIPELINE project launched: European collaboration tackles infectious diseases in pregnant people and infants 

28 Jan, 2025

PADOVA, ITALY, January 28, 2025 — This week, the PIPELINE project officially kicked off, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at enhancing preparedness and response to infections affecting pregnant people and infants…
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READI project launches to enhance patient representativeness and inclusion in European clinical research 

16 Jan, 2025

16 January, 2025 — The pioneering project READI — Research in Europe and Diversity Inclusion — a public-private partnership funded by the Horizon Europe Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) and driven by…
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The European project ORCHESTRA comes to a close: scientists take the stage against pandemics

08 Oct, 2024

The initiative, coordinated by the University of Verona, provided concrete results in the fight against Long COVID. 8th October 2024 – The ORCHESTRA Project,
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SUPPORT project launches to equip the next generation of African experts to fight childhood HIV 

05 Jul, 2024

A new collaborative initiative, SUPPORT – Supporting the next generation of African experts on preventing mortality among children living with HIV through translational training, has officially launched.
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Significant advancements and a fifteen-month extension for the RBDCOV project

25 Jun, 2024

The European Commission has granted a fifteen-month extension to continue with the RBDCOV Project. So far, 240 volunteers have been recruited across all the centres set to join adolescents’ clinical…
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A Europe-wide push to improve care for premature babies: New study explores benefits of kangaroo care on reducing infections in NICUs

04 Jun, 2024

Padova, 3 June 2024 – A new European multicenter study, named NeoDeco, will investigate whether optimised kangaroo care can reduce infection rates in preterm babies in neonatal intensive care units…
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Kangaroo care: nuovo studio europeo per proteggere i neonati dalle infezioni ospedaliere

04 Jun, 2024

Padova, 3 giugno 2024 – Parte un nuovo studio europeo per verificare l’efficacia della kangaroo care ottimizzata, cioè iniziata alla nascita e prolungata nel tempo, nel ridurre le infezioni nelle…
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EARTH study reveals high mortality rates among infants with HIV despite early treatment 

24 May, 2024

Padova, Italy – 24 May 2024 Alarmingly high mortality rates persist for African infants with HIV despite early treatment, the Early Anti-Retroviral Treatment in Children (EARTH) study finds.
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🇬🇧 Penta Teams Up with IAVI and Achilles Vaccines to Develop New Treatments for HIV, Emerging Infections and Neglected Diseases

01 Feb, 2024

Padova, Italy, 1st February 2024 – Penta – Child Health Research announced a new collaboration with IAVI and Achilles Vaccines to accelerate the development of treatments for HIV,
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🇬🇧 Advancing Paediatric Antibiotic Research: Two New African-European Research Collaborations Tackle Severe Infections in Neonates and Children

30 Jan, 2024

Johannesburg, South Africa, 30th January 2024 – This week, expert scientists and clinicians from PediCAP and SNIP-AFRICA, two major research partnerships combatting antimicrobial resistance,
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🇬🇧 NeoIPC launches new surveillance toolkit to bolster infection prevention and control efforts in NICUs

09 Nov, 2023

Padua, Italy – 9th November 2023 The NeoIPC Consortium is proud to announce the launch of a new surveillance toolkit to help neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) track and prevent…
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🇮🇹 Infezioni ospedaliere nei neonati: un nuovo sistema di sorveglianza sviluppato dal progetto NeoIPC aiuterà a prevenirle

09 Nov, 2023

Padova, Italia – 9 novembre 2023 Il Consorzio internazionale NeoIPC ha sviluppato un nuovo sistema di sorveglianza che permetterà alle unità di terapia intensiva neonatale (UTIN) di ridurre l’incidenza delle…
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🇬🇧 Antibiotic-resistant sepsis still claiming newborn lives in Africa: Penta leads new scientific collaboration to improve treatment and reduce mortality 

27 Jul, 2023

Padova (Italy), 27 July 2023 – A new European-African collaboration to improve the way infections in newborns are treated is launching today. The project, called SNIP-AFRICA, aims to reduce mortality…
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🇬🇧 Penta unveils Brighter Future Award 2023: Recognising innovators and visionaries driving positive change

15 Jun, 2023

Padua, Italy, 15 June 2023 – Penta, an international independent scientific network dedicated to maternal and child health research, is proud to unveil the Brighter Future Award (BFA),
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🇮🇹 Sepsi nei neonati: ancora alta la mortalità nel mondo. Nuovi strumenti per facilitare diagnosi e cura

08 Jun, 2023

Studio internazionale condotto da Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) e Penta – Child Health Research. Coinvolti 19 ospedali di 11 Paesi, l’Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù per l’Europa.
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🇬🇧 Global study highlights deaths from neonatal sepsis and steps to improve treatment

08 Jun, 2023

Geneva, 8 June 2023 – A global observational study, which involved more than 3,200 newborn babies suffering from sepsis in 19 hospitals in 11 countries, has shown that many newborns…
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