Impact of Community Scabies Treatment on Head Lice Prevalence in the Solomon Islands

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-02-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a pilot study evaluating if treatment for scabies also treats headlice in the same community

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Treatments: Ivermectin; Malathion; Permethrin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All participants living in the community will be offered treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with a contradindication to study medication

• Patients unable to provide consent