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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02545296
Date of registration: 08/07/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Michael Hoelscher
Public title: HIV Point-of-Care Test Evaluation in Infants BABY
Scientific title: HIV Point-of-Care Tests in Babies Study (BABY) - Operational Evaluation of HIV Point-of-Care Tests for Very Early Infant HIV Diagnostics in Infants Born to HIV Infected Mothers in Mbeya, Tanzania
Date of first enrolment: July 2015
Target sample size: 604
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02545296
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Tanzania
Contacts
Name:     Michael Hoelscher, Prof Dr
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Affiliation:  Medical Centre of the University of Munich
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Voluntary and informed consent of the mother for her own study participation (if
applicable).

2. Voluntary and informed consent of the legal guardian of the child for participation of
the child in the study.

3. Mothers/legal guardians =18 years of age.

4. Documented maternal HIV infection.

5. Willingness to consent to HIV testing for the child and herself (if applicable).

6. Willing to consent to active tracing including home tracing.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Deficiency in the mother, rendering it difficult, if not impossible, for her or her
infant to take part in the study or understand the information provided to her. This
includes alcoholism, drug dependency as well as psychiatric illnesses, suicidal
tendencies or any other inability.

2. Having delivered more than 48h ago

3. Prisoners

4. Women presenting with an emergency requiring immediate medical assistance if not
resolved at study inclusion.

5. Stillbirths

6. Infant requiring emergency care or born with severe malformation.

7. If within the discretion of the investigator based on recommendation of the
gynaecologist or paediatrician in charge study participation would possibly add not
acceptable risk or burden to the mother or infant (e.g. significant congenital
malformation, health deficiencies, very low birth weight less than 1500g)

8. Unlikely to comply with protocol as judged by the principal investigator or his
designate



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 48 Hours
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
HIV
Intervention(s)
Other: In-vitro Diagnostics
Primary Outcome(s)
Sensitivity of PoC HIV test [Time Frame: Participants are planned to be followed for the duration of 6 weeks, i.e. the time point of the current Standard of Care EID]
Specificity of PoC HIV test [Time Frame: Participants are planned to be followed for the duration of 6 weeks, i.e. the time point of the current Standard of Care EID]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
LMU-IMPH-BABY-01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
German Center for Infection Research
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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