Healthy children

PentaTr@ining: sharing knowledge

Healthy mothers and babies

PentaTr@ining: sharing experience

Healthy futures

PentaTr@ining: sharing research

Enjoying learning

PentaTr@ining: building lasting networks

Online E-Learning

‘PentaTr@ining 2020’ builds on the success of previous ‘Tr@inforPedHIV’ courses and now includes congenital infections. The online modules are highly interactive and focus on case based teaching.

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Residential Learning

The face to face workshops embrace a true collegiate spirit – maximising teacher/student interaction, encouraging delegates to be proactive participants and consolidating the knowledge acquired during the online course.

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Virtual Live Training Day

This will be an opportunity to bring delegates and faculty members together ‘virtually’ for a day of fun and interactive clinical case based discussions, presentations and quizzes!

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PentaTr@ining: ‘HIV & Other Congenital Infections’

PentaTr@ining (formerly ‘Tr@inforPedHIV’) started for the first time in 2005, in the framework of the partnership between Penta and the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID). It is a training programme for healthcare professionals caring for children, adolescents and pregnant women living with HIV and congenital infections.

Who We Are

PentaTr@ining is unique in its learning system as it incorporates an e-learning section into the teaching. At the beginning, the course was designed to address topics related to the treatment of children with HIV/AIDS in Western and Eastern Europe, but the great success of the first experiences led the organisers to readapt and export it also to low and middle income countries, in a variety of international settings including Africa, Asia and Latin America. This has given the chance to many more clinicians and healthcare professionals to meet, share knowledge and benefit from this experience.
Since 2008 it has been part of the Oxford Paediatric Infectious Diseases Diploma.

PentaTr@ining 2005 - present

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TRAINING COURSES

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YEARS OF ACTIVITY

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Testimonials

“The course added value to my work in the way that I manage exposed infants that are brought for routine or emergency care. It helped me build a relationship with our linkage team and quickly link infants and mothers to care in my practice.”

Delegate (Johannesburg, 2019)

“In my view, I think the Penta ID Network in a special way has helped Trials in Research and in improving on National guidelines in Paediatric HIV care and management. PentaTr@ining was the first of its kind and I was excited to share experiences.”

Delegate (Maputo, 2019)

“PentaTr@ining has been outstanding because it is more international, more global. The spirit of the Penta ID Network has always aimed at successful high-level scientific collaboration.”

Penta Trainer (Germany, 2020)

“These courses are very useful and necessary for the development of better quality care for children living with HIV. Prophylaxis of HIV among the population remains very important.”

Delegate (Dushanbe, 2019)

“We believe it is important to continue talking about HIV infection in order to sensitize people so as to reduce transmission, answer questions that arise in communities, dispel any myths, clarify misconceptions and help to reduce stigma in society.”

Delegate (Zanzibar, 2018)

“The training course added value to my work. My practice changed by reinforcing the new guidelines and giving a strong health education to adults in how to take care of children who are living with HIV/AIDS.”

Delegate (Maputo, 2019)

“You have expanded our knowledge more than we ever expected. PentaTr@ining is a “must” for every physician handling HIV cases. Thank you very much to the tutors and my fellow students! We have increased our network despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Just amazing!”

Delegate (Philippines, 2021)

“The training has changed my understanding of my profession and the role I need to play. After the training I really did my best to introduce everything I have learnt on treatment and prevention and I am now more self assured and convinced to fight and protect the interests of children in terms of their treatment.”

Delegate (Irkutsk, 2013)

“The training helped us to see more strategies for improved patient care, drug options available globally, and adolescent friendly HIV care – through peer-to-peer interaction.”

Delegate (Zanzibar, 2018)

“The PentaTr@ining ‘experience’ has changed the model of HIV care in Central America. For El Salvador, the experience gained over the years working with the Penta community has shaped the practice of caring for children with HIV, learning to implement solutions with the available resources.”

Penta Trainer (El Salvador, 2020)

“It was a knowledge feast! I thoroughly relished the learning experience. All the tutors just kept every one of us on our toes.”

Delegate (Oxford, 2019)

PentaTr@ining 2005 - present