WHO has launched a public call for comments on the draft of WHO Essential Medicines List Antibiotic Book. The book provides guidance on the prescribing and use of the antibiotics on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for over 30 common infections...
Every breath counts 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). According to...
The PediCAP health economics analysis team presented preliminary results of an analysis to estimate the global consumption and costs of two commonly used antibiotics for managing childhood infections in community settings: amoxicillin and co-amoxiclav. Both are...
Part of the PediCAP study team at Makerere University, Uganda 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...
We are glad to announce that at University Teaching Hospital (Lusaka, Zambia) the PediCAP trial protocol has recently obtained the last required approval. The UTH team has been working on ethics and regulatory submissions since last December 2019, and thanks to their...
After the kick-off Meeting held in Johannesburg last year, the PediCAP Consortium was expected to meet in Zimbabwe in June 2020. Unfortunately, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and the related safety measures, the face-to-face meeting was canceled. A...
The PediCAP protocol obtained its first ethical approvals! Harare and Parirenyatwa Hospitals (Zimbabwe) provided their ethical approval respectively in September and October, two months after protocol finalisation. This achievement is highly motivating for all the...
We are glad to announce that the PediCAP protocol has been finalized! Following an active discussion during the kick-off meeting in Johannesburg, during which its key points were discussed and aligned with each site’s standard of care and practices, principal...
The start of the PediCAP Project was officially launched with the kick-off meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 29-30 April 2019. All of the 13 European and African institutions and hospitals comprising the PediCAP Consortium, including the 5 recruiting...