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and updatesPediCAP surpasses 25% patient recruitment milestone
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully passed our 25% recruitment milestone with more than 400 patients successfully randomised into their arms. The PediCAP trial will determine whether children hospitalised for severe or very severe pneumonia, do better...
Global antibiotic use patterns in children – by Julia A. Bielicki and Victor Musiime
The recent GRAM report on the global impact of antimicrobial resistance highlights the ongoing challenges to antibiotic stewardship. Considering global assessments of antibiotic use patterns, it is essential to note that children are likely to have an approximately three times higher consumption of antibiotics than adults in most settings, regardless of country income level
General Assembly meeting of the PediCAP consortium
On February 24th, 2022, the PediCAP consortium met for a general assembly meeting. The general assembly meeting is the main meeting in which all consortium members and work package leaders within the PediCAP project meet to share progress, address issues and make key...
Microbiology sub-study sites receive training from LAB-Net
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. Microbiologists, technicians and study...
Public consultation on the draft of the WHO Essential Medicines List Antibiotic Book
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...
World Pneumonia Day 2021: Every Breath Counts
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...
An analysis of the global consumption and cost of antibiotics in children
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...
First patient enrolled in PediCAP trial
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...
UTH (Lusaka, Zambia) first PediCAP site to obtain all approvals
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...
PediCAP Consortium Meeting 2020 and COVID-19 pandemic
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...
