Overview

Evaluation of Alternative Antimalarial Drugs for Malaria in Pregnancy

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2013-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The study aims at comparing the safety, tolerability and efficacy of Mefloquine (MQ) to Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) as Interment Preventive Treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) for the prevention of malaria effects on the mother and her infant.
Phase:
N/A
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Collaborators:
Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Barcelona Centre for International Health Research
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centro de Investigacao em Saude de Manhica
Ifakara Health Institute
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tuebingen
Kenya Medical Research Institute
Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium
Université d'Abomey-Calavi
Vienna School of Clinical Research (VSCR), Austria.
Treatments:
Fanasil, pyrimethamine drug combination
Mefloquine
Pyrimethamine
Sulfadoxine