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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02378753
Date of registration: 19/02/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public title: STRIVE (Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine Against Ebola) STRIVE
Scientific title: [rVSV?G-ZEBOV] Ebola Prevention Vaccine Evaluation in Sierra Leone
Date of first enrolment: April 2015
Target sample size: 8651
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02378753
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 2/Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Sierra Leone
Contacts
Name:     Mohamed Samai, MBChB,PhD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  University of Sierra Leone
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 18 years or older.

2. Member of target population at the time of enrollment:

- active worker in an Ebola care, holding, or treatment center (may include
physicians, nurses, nurse aides, lab technicians, pharmacists, pharmacy
technicians, cleaners, and security and administrative staff);

- active worker in a facility providing non-Ebola-related healthcare (may include
physicians, nurses, nurse aides, lab technicians, pharmacists, pharmacy
technicians, cleaners, and security and administrative staff);

- active frontline worker in one of the following job categories: surveillance
team, ambulance team, burial worker, or worker responsible for swabbing deceased
persons.

3. Reasonably anticipates living in Sierra Leone for the 18-24 weeks following
enrollment.

4. Reachable by phone throughout the 6 month post-vaccination safety follow-up period.

5. Willing to adhere to personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control
recommendations.

6. Able and willing to complete the informed consent process and study procedures.

7. Willing to receive vaccine in either the immediate or the deferred trial arms,
according to random assignment.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. History of Ebola (self-report).

2. Prior receipt of experimental Ebola or Marburg vaccine.

3. History of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or clinically important immunodeficiency
(self-report).

4. Any history of allergy or anaphylaxis to prior vaccines

5. Breast-feeding an infant or child.

6. Any reason the investigator suspects that data collected from this person would be
incomplete or of poor quality.

7. Current pregnancy (a negative urine pregnancy test is required for women participants
<50 years of age who self-report as not pregnant).

8. Currently being followed for known exposure to Ebola.

9. Known experimental research agents or other vaccine within 28 days (4 weeks) before
vaccination.

10. Fever = 38.0°C (100.4°F) at time of vaccination.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Intervention(s)
Biological: rVSV?G-ZEBOV
Primary Outcome(s)
Number of Participants With Occurrence of Serious Adverse Events During the 6 Months Following the Vaccination [Time Frame: 6 months following vaccination]
Laboratory-confirmed Ebola (Study Diagnostics) [Time Frame: > 21 days following vaccination]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Death Due to Laboratory-confirmed Ebola [Time Frame: 6 months following vaccination]
Number of Participants With Occurrence of Solicited and Unsolicited AEs During the 28 Days Following the Vaccination or Enrollment [Time Frame: During 28 days following vaccination]
Ebola Confirmed by Non-study or Study Diagnostics [Time Frame: 6 months following vaccination]
Number of Participants With Occurrence of Solicited Injection-site and Systemic Reactogenicity Signs and Symptoms, Including Fever, on Vaccination Day and During the 7 Days Following the Vaccination or Enrollment. [Time Frame: Vaccination day and for 7 days following vaccination]
Suspected, Probable or Laboratory-confirmed Ebola [Time Frame: 6 months following vaccination]
Secondary ID(s)
CDC-NCIRD-6689
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Department of Health and Human Services
Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
University of Sierra Leone
eHealth Africa
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 05/04/2018
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT02378753
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