youth engagement

We are thrilled to announce that the Penta Young Reporters project has been awarded the “Excellence in Patient Programmes” award at the 2025 Communiqué Awards. This recognition celebrates innovation and impact in healthcare communications and patient engagement. 

It was in my early days as a Penta Young Reporter that I was given the opportunity to interview the highly regarded Paediatric HIV consultant, Dr. Noella Pereira from the Penta ID Network.

ReCAP is a series of interviews with the members of the RBDCOV Community Advisory Panel that will explore the world of community engagement in EU projects and the importance of including people living with immunocompromising conditions in clinical trials.

Arriving at the International Workshop on Pediatrics & HIV 2024, we felt a mix of nerves and excitement, knowing we were about to be surrounded by experts who spend their careers understanding and fighting the virus we live with every day.

Between the months of April and May 2023, Penta hosted advisory group meetings where young people between the ages of 15 and 19 from South Africa, Argentina, the United Kingdom and Thailand,