drugset / Trial / NCT02721420
Delivery of Malaria Chemoprevention in the Post-discharge Management of Children With Severe Anaemia in Malawi
Phase 3
Unknown
375 enrolled
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Imperial College London · collabKenya Medical Research Institute · collabLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine · collabLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · collabMakerere University · collabMinistry of Health, Malawi · collabThe Research Council of Norway · collabUniversity of Amsterdam · collabUniversity of Bergen · collabUniversity of Minnesota · collab
RandomizedFactorialOpen-labelPrevention
Summary
Background and rationale: Children hospitalised with severe anaemia in Africa are at high risk of readmission or death within 6 months after discharge. No strategy specifically addresses this post-discharge period. In Malawi, 3 months of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) with monthly 3-day treatment courses of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) in children with severe malarial anaemia prevented 31% of deaths and readmissions. The effect was in addition to the effect of insecticide-treated bednets. There is now need to design and evaluate effective delivery mechanism for PMC within the health system.
Timeline
- Start
- 2016-03-24
- Primary completion
- 2019-03
- Completion
- 2019-12
Publications
- Nkosi-Gondwe T, Robberstad B, Mukaka M, Idro R, Opoka RO, Banda S, Kuhl MJ, O Ter Kuile F, Blomberg B, Phiri KS. Adherence to community versus facility-based delivery of monthly malaria chemoprevention with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anemia in Malawian children: A cluster randomized trial. PLoS One. 2021 Sep 10;16(9):e0255769. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255769. eCollection 2021.
- Nkosi-Gondwe T, Robberstad B, Blomberg B, Phiri KS, Lange S. Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers' perceptions and motivation. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Dec 19;18(1):984. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3791-5.
- Gondwe T, Robberstad B, Mukaka M, Lange S, Blomberg B, Phiri K. Delivery strategies for malaria chemoprevention with monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children aged less than 5 years old in Malawi: a protocol for a cluster randomized trial. BMC Pediatr. 2018 Jul 20;18(1):238. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1199-3.
- Svege S, Kaunda B, Robberstad B, Nkosi-Gondwe T, Phiri KS, Lange S. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) in Malawi: caregivers; acceptance and preferences with regard to delivery methods. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Jul 11;18(1):544. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3327-z.
Drugs
| Evaluation | Drug | Modality | Dose | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background | Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine | Unknown | — | Oral |