Advancing Paediatric Antibiotic Research: African-European Research Collaboration Tackle Severe Infections in Neonates and Children

5th PediCAP Annual General Meeting hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa

February 1st-2nd 2024

Expert scientists and clinicians from PediCAP, an African- European research partnerships combatting antimicrobial resistance, convened in Johannesburg to present groundbreaking results and ways to advance antibiotic research tailored to the needs of children and their families.
Over the past five years, PediCAP’s main clinical trial has evaluated the optimal drug, dose and duration of oral step-down antibiotics for children aged between 2 months to 6 years, hospitalised with severe or very severe community-acquired pneumonia. The results of PediCAP’s main trial were discussed at the meeting and plans to widely disseminate the findings are currently underway. You can stay up to date by signing up to the PediCAP knowledge hub.

LAB-Net trained all sites in the PediCAP study

January 2022

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. READ MORE

World Pneumonia Day 2021: Every Breath Counts

November 2021

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). READ MORE

An Analysis of the global consumption and cost of antibiotics in Children

July 20, 2021

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... READ MORE

First patient enrolled in PediCAP trial

Decembre 17, 2020

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 ... READ MORE

UTH (Lusaka, Zambia) first PediCAP site to obtain all approvals

June 29, 2020

The UTH team has been working on ethics and regulatory submissions since last December 2019, and thanks to their commitment and to the support of MRC CTU and of Saint George’s University they have received all approvals from the local Ethical Committee, Regulatory and National boards between March and June 2020 ... READ MORE

PediCAP Kick-off Meeting in Johannesburg

June 27, 2019

The UTH team has been working on ethics and regulatory submissions since last December 2019, and thanks to their commitment and to the support of MRC CTU and of Saint George’s University they have received all approvals from the local Ethical Committee, Regulatory and National boards between March and June 2020.

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 ... READ MORE