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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00294580
Date of registration: 20/02/2006
Primary sponsor: Imperial College London
Public title: Early Childhood Malaria Prevention With Maloprim in The Gambia
Scientific title: Comparison of Two Strategies for Control of Malaria Within A Primary Health Care Programme in the Gambia
Date of first enrolment: April 1982
Target sample size: 2253
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00294580
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Prevention  
Countries of recruitment
Gambia
Contacts
Name:   Matthew CH Jukes, DPhil
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Affiliation:  Imperial College London
Name:   Brian M Greenwood, MD
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Affiliation:  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- For original trial: Children aged 3-59 months present in participating villages

- For follow-up: Children who were in original trial for at least 1 year.

Exclusion Criteria:

- For original trial: None

- For follow-up: Children with mental or physical disabilities who were unable to do
cognitive tests



Age minimum: 3 Months
Age maximum: 59 Months
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Malaria
Intervention(s)
Drug: Maloprim
Primary Outcome(s)
Cognitive Abilities in late adolescence
Educational Attainment (Years spent at school)
Episodes of Fever Associated with Malaria Parasitaemia
Mortality
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
SCC-795-835
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Government of the Gambia
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia
Partnership for Child Development
Wellcome Trust
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