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The position of Senior Clinical Research Fellow is now available at the MRC CTU. The position is open to clinicians with experience in the management of infectious diseases, in particular…

Babies and young children treated with the anti-HIV drug dolutegravir, in combination with other anti-HIV drugs, are more likely to keep the virus under control, compared to those treated with…

We are happy to announce that registrations are now open for our new interactive training course ‘Fungal Infections in Paediatrics‘! Building on the combined expertise within the European Paediatric Mycology…

CARMA Global is an EPIICAL cross-sectional, multi-country, multi-site, low interventional study on children, adolescents and youth who started ART at three months or younger at least seven years ago and…

We are proud to endorse the International Workshop on HIV and adolescents taking place from 5-6 October 2022, in Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop brings together experts from across…

The PentaTr@ining Zambia-Tanzania 2022 course was held on 18-20 July. It was Penta’s first-ever jointly hosted training course in Africa and it counted more than 200 participants with nearly 150…

Results from a substudy of the ODYSSEY trial show that children being treated for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV at the same time can safely have the anti-HIV medicine dolutegravir twice…

The second VERDI General Assembly took place from 28-30 June 2022, bringing together more than 70 people both online and in Padua, Italy. This hybrid meeting spotlighted the important work…

The methodology team at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL is a key partner of Penta and has made a huge contribution to our studies on HIV.

A large study on the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11 was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The study was conducted at Israel’s…

Between 13th-15th June 2022, around 140 beneficiaries of the c4c consortium met in Ghent Belgium for the c4c General Assembly. This was the first time since 2019 that the consortium…

A new trial opened in May, aiming to find out if children and young people living with HIV can take two anti-HIV medicines instead of three. The trial has already…

The first two participants of the SHIELD trial (PENTA-22) were screened by Dr. Renate Strehlau and her team at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2022. 

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published the final revised guideline on the evaluation of human medicines for the treatment of bacterial infections. The revised guideline reflects the outcome of recent discussions…

The first Penta Café, held on 19 May, was attended by ECRs from Europe and Africa who discussed ideas on the best way to get papers published, tips and learning…

We are pleased to announce that the PediCAP trial have successfully passed its 25% recruitment milestone with more than 400 patients successfully randomised into their arms. PediCAP will determine whether…

The Penta ID Network Meeting 2022 (PIM, 28-30 April 2022) gave our members – the Penta family – a great opportunity to meet face-to-face, after more than two years of distance due…

Involving patients in our clinical trials is of utmost importance to us. Penta is dedicated to ensuring that the young people in our trials are included at various stages of…