PediCAP

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as defined by the WHO, occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to medications. This is a growing global health crisis because AMR makes infections harder to treat and increases the risk of disease spread,

The PediCAP trial team is pleased to announce the successful completion of a series of dissemination meetings aimed at sharing trial results with key stakeholders in Mozambique. These meetings targeted a diverse audience,

The PediCAP consortium, a global partnership of 14 institutions, presented promising results from its main trial, PediCAP-A, at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Global) conference held from April 27-30,

The PediCAP project, dedicated to investigating antibiotic therapy for severe and very severe childhood community-acquired pneumonia, actively participated in the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) forum held in France from Nov 7-10,

The PediCAP team is pleased to report that the 1100 patients required for the main trial in this study have now been recruited.

PediCAP is an innovative, EDCTP funded clinical trial,

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 children hospitalised for severe or very severe pneumonia,

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 (PediCAP) project.

It’s impossible to ignore the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has gripped the lives of everyone around the world, but it is equally impossible to ignore the thousands of lives that are lost daily to chest infections (pneumonia).

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 participant into the PediCAP clinical trial.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new PediCAP project website!

Take a look at this new website, which describes the background,