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Proactive Community Case Management for Malaria in Zambia

NCT04839900 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10890

Last updated 2024-07-25

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Summary

To study if a proactive strategy of weekly household visits by community health workers (CHWs) to identify people with malaria symptoms, offer diagnostic testing, and treatment for those with positive tests in Chadiza District, Eastern Province, can decrease malaria incidence and prevalence compared to conventional community case management.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Proactive iCCM

CHWs in the proactive iCCM intervention arm will conduct weekly visits of all households in their communities to detect children \< 5 years with diarrhea or cough, and people of all ages complaining of fever or history of fever. People with fever or history of fever in the past 48 hours, or any person with symptoms suggestive of malaria (chills, headache, muscle ache, fatigue, etc), will receive an RDT; those with positive results will be defined as confirmed malaria cases, and will receive the first line antimalarial. Any child under 5 years with diarrhea will be treated with oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc, and any child meeting diagnostic criteria for pneumonia will receive the first line antibiotic recommended per national iCCM policy. If the CHW does not have the indicated therapy on hand, the patient will be referred for treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-04-15
Primary Completion
2023-06-30
Completion
2023-12-30

Countries

  • Zambia

Study Locations

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