There are about 139 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Cameroon. 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.
ERADAL-HF is a double blinded, multi-centre, prospective, randomized, three arm study, enrolled ambulatory patients with chronic heart failure [New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II/III], with iron deficiency [defined as ferritin <100 ng/mL, or ferritin 100-300 ng/mL if transferrin saturation (TSAT) <20%] and haemoglobin (Hb) < 15 g/dL. Patients were randomized 1:1:1 to treatment into three arms: a first group treated with intravenous iron supplementation, a second treated by intramuscular iron supplementation and the third one which have received placebo. These patients were followed-up during a period of 04 weeks. The aim of this study is to assess the short term effect of parenteral iron supplementation on exercise tolerance and oxidative stress in patients with stable chronic heart failure and iron deficiency
The aim of the study was the evaluation of cardiovascular benefits of Zingiber officinale Roscoe in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus before and after 6 weeks of add-on therapy.
The aim of this study is to compare the short-term effects of ACEi and angiotensin II receptor blockers on cardiac and renal protection in black type 2 diabetics patients CARE-PLP is a double-arm, double-blind, randomized and parallel clinical trial conducted at the National Obesity Center in the Yaoundé Central Hospital. A population of Type 2 diabetes patients, with hypertension and / or microalbuminuria and who are not taking ACEi or angiotensin receptors blockers, is randomize into two groups. Depending on the group, 10 mg Perindopril or 100 mg Losartan is add to the usual treatment for each patient. The patients are followed-up for a period of 08 weeks. The primary outcome is the variation of exercise induced urinary albumin excretion after 08 weeks of intervention.
The investigators assessed the 6-week effect of once daily 25mg SGLT2-i Empagliflozin on left ventricular diastolic function and blood pressure profile in non diabetic hypertensive patients
This evaluation will be conducted in ten countries involved in the Catalyzing Pediatric TB Innovation (CaP-TB) project: Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and India. The CaP-TB project is a project designed to use innovative methods and capacity building to strengthen the health systems of developing countries in terms of pediatric TB case detection, early accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. This project is funded by Unitaid and is implemented by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. EGPAF proposes to evaluate the implementation of CaP-TB in up to 450 sites in ten participating countries. This evaluation will assess the effects of CaP-TB innovative interventions on selected service delivery outcomes as compared to routine TB program in a sub-set of project sites in the ten countries.
The AM-HTN trial aim to investigate the effects of a tablet based on aqueous extracts of Annona muricata as add-on therapy in a hypertensive population. Patients with prehypertension or stage 1 hypertension confirmed, will be selected and assign in a single arm, non randomly, open label clinical trial. The group will receive in addition to their dietary measures, daily, one tablet of 796 mg of aqueous extracts of Annona muricata leaves. The objective of AM-HTN is to determine the antihypertensive and metabolic effects of AM tablets in a population of African hypertensives. Blood pressure profile, lipid profile, serum creatinine and transaminases profiles will be recorded and analysed at baseline and two months following enrolment.
FIND is preparing a study to evaluate the performance, as measured by sensitivity and specificity, of four centralized assays for the detection of HCV RNA using capillary blood collected on dried blood spots (DBS) and plasma separation card (PSC).
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 many gaps observed in the cascade of care of tuberculosis (TB) child contacts occur mostly in the screening, preventive therapy (PT) initiation and PT completion steps and the main drivers of these gaps are considered to be the health system infrastructure, limited worker resources and parents' reluctance to bring their children to the facility for screening. There would be great advantages of using a symptom-based screening at community level where only the symptomatic contacts are referred to hospital for further evaluation and asymptomatic contacts are started on PT in the community. Household or community-based screening is likely to improve the uptake and acceptability of child contact screening and management as well as adherence to PT and to reduce cost and workload at facility level. This study proposes to compare the cascade of care between two models for TB screening and management of household TB child contacts in two high TB burden and limited resource countries, Cameroon and Uganda. In the facility-based model, children will be screened at facility (Cameroon) or household level (Uganda) and preventive therapy initiation, refills of PT therapy and follow-up will be done at facility level. In the intervention group (community-based model), child contacts will be screened in the household by a community health worker (CHW). Those with symptoms suggestive of TB will be referred to the facility for TB investigations. Asymptomatic child contacts from high risk groups (under-5 years or HIV infected 5-14) will be initiated on PT (3 months isoniazid-rifampicin) in the household. Refills of PT therapy will also be done in the communities by the CHW. In both models, symptomatic children requiring further investigations for TB diagnosis will be referred to a health facility.
Despite progress in reducing tuberculosis (TB) incidence and mortality in the past 20 years, TB is a top ten cause of death in children under 5 years worldwide. However, childhood TB remains massively underreported and undiagnosed, mostly because of the challenges in confirming its diagnosis due to the paucibacillary nature of the disease and the difficulty in obtaining expectorated sputum in children. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 years worldwide. There is growing evidence that, in high TB burden settings, TB is common in children with pneumonia, with up to 23% of those admitted to hospital with an initial diagnosis of pneumonia later being diagnosed as TB. However, the current World Health Organization (WHO) standard of care (SOC) for young children with pneumonia considers a diagnosis of TB only if the child has a history of prolonged symptoms or fails to respond to antibiotic treatments. Hence, TB is often under-diagnosed or diagnosed late in children presenting with pneumonia. In this context, the investigators are proposing to assess the impact on mortality of adding the systematic early detection of TB using Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra, performed on NPAs and stool samples, to the WHO SOC for children with severe pneumonia, followed by immediate initiation of anti-TB treatment in children testing positive on any of the samples. TB-Speed Pneumonia is a multicentric, stepped wedge diagnostic trial conducted in six countries with high TB incidence: Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia and Cambodia. The sub-study on Covid-19 will assess the prevalence and impact of the Covid-19 in young children hospitalized with severe pneumonia. The sub-study findings are expected to guide policy makers and clinicians on potential specific screening and management measures for these vulnerable groups of children. They are also key to analysing TB-Speed Pneumonia results on mortality in a context of the Covid-19 outbreak and to take into consideration SARS-CoV-2 infection status in the main study analysis.