There are about 751 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Kenya. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Under-diagnosis of TB in children is a critical gap to address. The INPUT study is a multinational stepped-wedge cluster-randomized intervention study aiming to assess the effect of integrating TB services into child healthcare services on TB diagnosis capacities in children under 5 years of age.
The RTS, S/AS01E vaccine has been developed for routine immunization of children living in malaria- endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa. This study is intended as a post-implementation safety study (after vaccine implementation), with the primary objective to evaluate the safety of vaccine after its administration. In addition to the primary objective, the study will also evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the vaccine.
The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of a combination intervention on long-term HIV viral load (VL) suppression among HIV-infected adolescents and young adults 15-24 years of age. The study will take place in 28 rural HIV clinics in western Kenya and southwest Uganda. Clinics will be randomly chosen to either continue to provide study participants standard care or to provide the study intervention, which consists of discussion and counseling on major issues or life events, flexible access to the clinic, and rapid turnaround of VL test results. Participants will take part in the study for at least 2 years.
The study would evaluate the safety and efficacy of L-praziquantel orodispersible (L-PZQ ODT) tablets in Schistosoma infected children aged 3 months to 6 years.
This mixed methods study will utilize a randomized step-wedge design to assess the impact of point-of-care (POC) versus conventional early infant diagnosis (EID) on key outcomes including timely return of results to caregivers and time to initiation on treatment for HIV-infected infants. Data will be collected through longitudinal clinical follow-up and medical chart extraction of routine records and lab forms. Feasibility and acceptability data will be collected through interviews with mothers/caregivers of HIV-exposed infants, and community focus groups.
Among nearly 1 million HIV-infected children receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), as many as 40% of those living in resource limited settings have not achieved virologic suppression. Kenya, a The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) fast-track and The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) priority country, has an estimated 98,000 children aged 0-14 years living with HIV. Virologic suppression is achieved by only 65% of Kenyan children on ART translating to only 38% of the final UNAIDS 90-90-90 goal for population-level viral suppression. Feasible, scalable and cost-effective approaches to maximizing durability of first-line ART and ensuring viral load (VL) suppression in HIV-infected children are urgently needed. This pilot study will evaluate two critical components related to viral suppression in children via: 1) Point-of-care (POC) VL testing (Aim 1) and 2) targeted drug resistance mutation (DRM) testing (Aim 2) among children on first-line ART at three facilities within a PEPFAR-funded HIV care and treatment program in Kenya. The hypotheses are: 1) viral suppression rates will be higher among children with access to POC VL testing and time to suppression shorter compared to children with standard VL testing and 2) DRM testing will shorten time to viral suppression and that the investigators will observe high levels of 1st line antiretroviral DRMs among children on ART without viral suppression. This proposal directly addresses the urgent need to find interventions to maximize viral suppression among children on ART and achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals.
The purpose of this pharmacokinetic (PK) study was to evaluate if a double dose (3 mg) of levonorgestrel (LNG) overcomes known drug-drug interactions (DDIs) with efavirenz (EFV)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) or rifampicin (RIF)-containing tuberculosis (TB) therapy. The safety of double-dose (3.0 mg) LNG versus standard-dose (1.5 mg) was also compared.
The TESTsmART Trial consists of two main aims. The overall goal of the two aims is to investigate the impact of malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT) subsidies and conditional artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) subsidies on the testing and treatment behavior of participants seeking care for their febrile illness in the private retail sector. Conditional ACT subsidies are discounts on quality-assured ACTs which are linked to the results of a malaria rapid diagnostic test administered at the retail outlet; only participants with a positive test will have access to an additional discount on a quality-assured ACT. The main objective of Aim 1 of this study is to identify a combination of conditional ACT and RDT subsidies that maximizes the proportion of participants that choose to have a malaria diagnostic test before taking a drug. The investigators will test two levels of conditional ACT subsidy (100% subsidy versus ~67% subsidy) and two levels of RDT subsidy (0% subsidy and 50% subsidy) in a factorial designed experiment. Because dose size and therefore the price of an ACT course are dependent upon patient age, the ACT subsidy amount will also be scaled with patient age. These subsidy levels were chosen to keep the estimated program cost of the combined subsidy within $0.30-0.60 USD per person (assuming 100% testing uptake and between 20-40% of participants having a positive RDT). These estimates represent an upper bound since testing is unlikely to reach 100%. Current subsidy levels for ACT costs the program between 1.30-2.50 USD per treatment, with more than a third of that investment spent on individuals without malaria. Individuals presenting to a retail outlet for a treatment of a fever or suspected malaria illness will be randomized to one of the four groups in equal proportions. A total of 840 participants will be enrolled (210 per arm). Their choices concerning uptake of testing and drug purchase will be recorded. The main outcome will be the proportion of participants that choose to take a test. Secondary outcomes include the proportion of participants who adhered to the results of the RDT among those who were tested (used ACT when positive and did not use an ACT when negative or without a test). The results of this study will be used to inform the subsidy levels in the intervention for Aim 2 of this trial.
The RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine is being introduced sub-nationally in phased pilot introductions through the EPI programmes in Malawi Ghana and Kenya. Vaccine introduction is by the respective MoH in selected areas randomly assigned to receive the vaccine at the beginning of the pilots. In the context of this programmatic activity, the Malaria Vaccine Pilot Evaluation (MVPE) registered here as observational evaluations during early vaccine introduction, include a series of 3 household surveys, and sentinel hospital and community mortality surveillance, building on routine systems. These observational evaluations will measure: 1. The programmatic feasibility of delivering a 4 dose schedule; 2. Safety in routine use, with focus on cerebral malaria and meningitis; 3. The impact of the malaria vaccine in routine use on severe malaria and all-cause mortality
This is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled pilot study to determine the safety, acceptability, and feasible pediatric dosage/tolerability of enterade® solution, an amino acid-based oral rehydration solution (AA-ORS), for potential use in the management of environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) among children aged 12-24 months in Kakamega County, Kenya. Primary objectives: 1. To determine the safety of a 2-week course of AA-ORS among children with length-for-age Z-scores (LAZ) between -1 and -3. 2. To determine the feasibility and best tolerated dose of AA-ORS among children with LAZ between -3 and -1. Secondary objectives: 3. To determine the perceptions among caregivers on the acceptability of AA-ORS as a potential intervention for EED. (Qualitative) Exploratory objectives: 4. To determine the impact of AA-ORS on markers of metabolism, gut dysfunction, systemic inflammation, and micronutrient status among children with LAZ between -3 and - 1. Qualitative results will not be reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.