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The Use of Homeopathic-Based Treatment Approaches to Reduce the Prevalence of Malaria in Depressed Communities

NCT00351013 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 731

Last updated 2009-02-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Malaria accounts for over 40% of outpatient morbidity in Sierra Leone. These health risks have been heightened further by the recent civil war, persistent poverty, lack of access to affordable health care, and an increasing resistance of P.falciparum parasites to the most commonly used therapy Chloroquine, which now has a confirmed failure rate of 39%. This study will recruit 780 people from the Kroo-Bay community in Freetown. Healthy subjects would be randomised into two subgroups and given either homeopathic pellets or placebo tablets at four month intervals. They are then monitored repeatedly during the study period to assess the efficacy of the therapy in reducing the disease burden.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Malaria Tropica Nosode D200

5 pellets every four months

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Blackie Foundation Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • Malamed

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jacob Minah, MD · Specialist Pediatrician, Homeopath, Germany

  • Florence M. Margai, PhD · Professor, Binghamton University-New York

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-06-30
Primary Completion
2007-06-30
Completion
2007-06-30

Countries

  • Sierra Leone

Study Locations

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Diseases

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