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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  PACTR201110000330271
Date of registration: 26/10/2011
Primary sponsor: Prof. Kim Fleischer Michaelsen , Department of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen
Public title: The role of nutritional support of human immunodeficiency virus [retrospectively registered]
Scientific title: The role of whey in nutritional upport of HIV infected patients on antiretroviral treatment: A randomized trial in Jimma, Ethiopia
Date of first enrolment: 2010-07-16
Target sample size: 318
Recruitment status: Open to recruitment: actively recruiting participa
URL:  HTTP://www.pactr.org/ATMWeb/appmanager/atm/atmregistry?da=true&tno=PACTR201110000330271
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Factorial: participants randomly allocated to either no,one,some or all interventions simultaneously,
Randomised,
Random allocation sequences in blocks of 18 are generated, separately for the four strata. ,
The RUSF containers are labeled from the factory using a concealment key according to whether it contains whey or soy, 3 different letters for soy and 3 for whey,
 
Countries of recruitment
South Africa
Contacts
Name: Alemseged Abdissa  Lencho
Address:  Jimma University P.O.Box 980 Jimma Ethiopia
Telephone: +251911409074
Email: alemseged.abdissa@ju.edu.et
Affiliation:  co-prinicipal investigator
Name: Alemseged Abdissa  Lencho
Address:  Jimma University P.O.Box 980 Jimma Ethiopia
Telephone: +251911409074
Email: alemseged.abdissa@ju.edu.et
Affiliation:  co-prinicipal investigator
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. HIV infected adults (18 years or older) commencing ART,
2. living within app 50 km from Jimma, and 3.consenting to participate.

Exclusion criteria: 1.Pregnant or lactating, terminally ill from HIV or other serious condition,
2.patients who may not be able to consume RUSF due to extensive oral lesion
3.patients with nutritional
edema.
4.Patients taking micronutrient supplements or RUTF will be excluded.


Age minimum: 18 Year
Age maximum: 100 Year
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

HIV/AIDS
null
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
grip strength as assessed using a dynamometer
lean body mass as assessed using deuterium dilution test
physical activity assessed using a combined accelerometer
Secondary Outcome(s)
adherence to ART and quality of life
ART drug levels
HIV load and CD4 counts
IGF-1
Secondary ID(s)
ISRCTN32453477
Source(s) of Monetary Support
DANIDA
US Diary Export Council
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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