30 Nov, 2023
Advancements in paediatric HIV research: Insights from the EPIICAL general assembly meeting
In the quest to enhance our understanding of paediatric HIV and improve treatment outcomes, the EPIICAL project has worked tirelessly for the past eight years to gather and generate knowledge on HIV…
21 Nov, 2022
General Assembly to reaffirm EPIICAL’s mission to achieve HIV remission in children
The EPIICAL General Assembly was held online and in person in Venice on 2-4 November 2022. It brought together 80 participants from 29 organisations from the EPIICAL consortium. Attendees came…
11 Aug, 2022
CARMA Global sites prepared and ready to enrol
In July and August 2022, as part of the preparations for the initiation of enrolments into CARMA Global, investigators and site staff were oriented on study procedures and the correct…
20 Jul, 2022
EPIICAL at IAS
Congratulations to study teams on the acceptance of their abstracts to AIDS 2022
26 Apr, 2022
The EPIICAL story
In 2016 the Early-treated Perinatally HIV-infected individuals: Improving Children’s Actual Life (EPIICAL) consortium began gathering scientists and clinicians specialising in paediatric HIV
01 Dec, 2021
World AIDS Day 2021: How paediatric HIV has changed in the last 30 years
It takes a community of people working together to achieve the results we are looking for: eradicating HIV in children
13 Oct, 2021
International AIDS Society CIPHER Grant Programme for early-stage investigators
The CIPHER Grant Programme directly supports the development of early stage investigators, awarding up to US$150,000 for up to two years to address research gaps in paediatric and adolescent HIV…
27 Jul, 2021
CARMA study publishes article in Journal of International AIDS Society
The CARMA team in the EPIICAL consortium have just published the article Early ART initiation during infancy preserves natural killer cells in young European adolescents living with HIV (CARMA cohort) in…
30 Apr, 2021
Paolo Palma speaks on Covid-19 vaccines and the absence of an HIV cure
Penta Foundation recently spoke with Paolo Palma of Bambino Gesu Children Hospital in Rome, a core member of the EPIICAL team to uncover some reasons there is still no cure…
22 Apr, 2021
CARMA study papers to be published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society and PLOS Pathogens Journal
The CARMA (Child and Adolescent Reservoir Measurements on early suppressive ART) study team is excited to share that two papers have been accepted for publication into the PLOS Pathogens Journal…