KCCR Leads Capacity Building phase of Neonatal Sepsis Trial

Kumasi Centre for Collaborative in Research (KCCR), KNUST will be leading the Capacity Building Work Package for the Severe Neonatal Infection Adaptive Platform Trials in Africa (SNIP-AFRICA) Consortium. Dr. John Amuasi, serving as the Principal Investigator for the study in Ghana and co-leading the Capacity Building Work Package for the SNIP-Africa consortium, expresses confidence in […]

Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group partners the SNIP-AFRICA project to reduce neonatal sepsis deaths in Africa. 

The Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group (GHID) at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is an implementing partner in a 60-month-long Neonatal sepsis clinical trial, SNIP-AFRICA. Dr. John Humphrey Amuasi, the research leader for the Global Health and Infectious […]

Antibiotic-resistant sepsis still claiming newborn lives in Africa.

Penta leads new scientific collaboration to improve treatment and reduce mortality. Padova (Italy), 27 July 2023 – A new European-African collaboration to improve the way infections in newborns are treated is launching today. The project, called SNIP-AFRICA, aims to reduce mortality among neonates in hospital with sepsis in Africa, in an era of increasing antimicrobial […]