Evaluation of Community-based Mass Screening and Treatment for Malaria in Western Kenya

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of community-based mass screening with a malaria rapid diagnostic test, and treatment of participants with positive tests with an appropriate antimalarial for reducing malaria transmission indices.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Simon Kariuki
• Collaborator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Treatments: Antimalarials; Artemisinins; Artenimol; Dihydroartemisinin; Piperaquine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Cross sectional studies: Living within one of the study clusters, >1 month of age

• Cohort: Living within one of the study clusters, ≥1 year of age

• Passive surveillance: Living within one of the study clusters

• Entomological surveillance- household in either control or intervention arm

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cohort study- pregnant at time of recruitment