There are about 3576 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in South Africa. 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.
The METHOD study will examine whether adding metformin to standard antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in people with HIV is safe and well tolerated. The study will also test if adding metformin clears the infection more quickly and with less lung damage. When enrolled, participants will have an equal chance of being in the group that takes standard TB medicines alone or in the group that also takes metformin. Participants will have a chance to be put on either: 1) standard TB medicines (isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide for two months, continuing isoniazid and rifampin for four more months) only; or 2) the same standard TB medicines plus metformin. Participants randomized to the metformin arm will take metformin for eleven weeks, starting one week after starting the standard TB medicines. In addition to monitoring for side effects, all participants will have studies of drug levels and lung and immune function.
Cancer is a condition where cells in a specific part of body grow and reproduce uncontrollably. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a solid tumor, a disease in which cancer cells form in the tissues of the lung. The purpose of this study is to determine if telisotuzumab vedotin works better than docetaxel and to assess how safe telisotuzumab vedotin is in adult participants with NSCLC who have previously been treated. Change in disease activity and adverse events will be assessed. Telisotuzumab vedotin is an investigational drug being developed for the treatment of NSCLC. Participants will be randomly assigned a treatment of Teliso-V or Docetax at an 1:1 ratio. Each group receives intravenous (IV) infusion of telisotuzumab vedotin or IV infusion of docetaxel. Approximately 698 adult participants with c-Met overexpressing NSCLC will be enrolled in the study in approximately 250 sites worldwide. Participants will receive IV telisotuzumab vedotin every 2 weeks or docetaxel every 3 weeks until meeting study drug discontinuation criteria. There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.
To reduce the burden of TB worldwide through more accurate, faster, simpler, and less expensive diagnosis of TB Every year, more than 3 million people with TB remain undiagnosed and 1 million die. Better diagnostics are essential to reducing the enormous burden of TB worldwide. The Rapid Research in Diagnostics Development for TB Network (R2D2 TB Network) brings together experts in TB care, technology assessment, diagnostics development, laboratory medicine, epidemiology, health economics and mathematical modeling with highly experienced clinical study sites in 10 countries
This study is a Phase 1, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation clinical trial to evaluate the safety of and immune response to CodaVax-RSV in healthy children. They will be vaccinated in spring to early autumn 2023 and followed through the 2023-24 RSV season. 18 children aged 2 to 5 years who are RSV-seropositive (have antibodies to RSV) and 33 children aged 6 months to < 2 years who are RSV-seronegative (do not have antibodies to RSV) will be enrolled in escalating-dose cohorts. A safety committee will review the safety profile of each dosing group before the next dose-escalation. Children will receive 2 doses of the vaccine at one of several dose levels or placebo (saline solution with no active ingredient) as nose drops; doses will be 28 days apart. A parent/guardian will record temperature and other conditions in a diary daily for 7 days after each dose. The parent/guardian will be contacted by telephone on the day after Dose 1 for safety assessment and review of the diary data. Children will return to the clinic 3, 7, 14, and 28 days after each dose. The parent/guardian will then be contacted by telephone monthly until 1 year after the second dose. Study procedures include physical examinations, vital signs, and collections of blood and nose/throat swab samples to look at safety of the vaccine and to analyze body's immune response.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate crovalimab for the treatment of a sickle cell pain crisis (also known as a VOE) that requires hospitalisation in adult and adolescent participants with SCD. The primary objective of this study is safety and will additionally evaluate pharmacokinetics (how crovalimab is processed by your body), pharmacodynamics (how your body reacts to crovalimab) and the preliminary efficacy of crovalimab compared with placebo.
This is a Phase III, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre, international study assessing the efficacy and safety of maintenance olaparib compared with placebo in BRCAwt participants with Stage III to IV high grade serous or endometroid ovarian cancer (including fallopian tube cancer or primary peritoneal cancer) who are in complete or partial response following treatment with standard first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.
This is a phase 2, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study in patients with moderate to severe active ulcerative colitis.
This study evaluates either KRT-232 or TL-895 in treatment naïve patients with myelofibrosis (MF) The study will be conducted in 2 stages. Stage 1 will evaluate safety, tolerability, and efficacy of either KRT-232 (Arm 1) or TL-895 (Arm 2) in treatment naïve patients. Stage 2 will expand enrollment in Arm 1 and/or Arm 2 if expansion criteria is met.
The purpose of this study is to learn more about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other related neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary lateral sclerosis (PLS), hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) and multisystem proteinopathy (MSP). More precisely, the investigator wants to identify the links that exist between the disease phenotype (phenotype refers to observable signs and symptoms) and the disease genotype (genotype refers to your genetic information). The investigator also wants to identify biomarkers of ALS and related diseases.
This is a Phase III, two-arm, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study in participants with HER2-positive primary breast cancer who have received preoperative chemotherapy and HER2-directed therapy, including trastuzumab followed by surgery, with a finding of residual invasive disease in the breast and/or axillary lymph nodes. As of June 4, 2024, this study is no longer accepting any newly screened participants.