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Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) in Pregnancy: Detection of Placental Malaria

NCT01555255 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1205

Last updated 2015-04-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study seeks to determine whether screening pregnant women for malaria with malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) may detect placental infection and predict risk of poor birth outcomes due to malaria in areas of varied malaria transmission in Africa.

Conditions

  • Malaria
  • Placental Malaria
  • Malaria in Pregnancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UNICEF

    collaborator OTHER

  • United Nations Development Programme

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • World Bank

    collaborator OTHER

  • World Health Organization

    collaborator OTHER

  • Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Heidi A Hopkins, MD · Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Kampala, Uganda

  • Jean-Bosco Ouedraogo, MD, PhD · IRSS, Direction Regionale de l'Ouest, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

  • David Bell, MBBS, PhD · Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Jane Cunningham, MD · UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland

  • Miriam Nakalembe, MBChB · Makerere University Faculty of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
44 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Burkina Faso
  • Uganda

Study Locations

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