There are about 472 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Tanzania. 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.
This research is being done to assess the efficacy of a case management intervention to improve the one year mortality rate of hospitalized, HIV-infected, Tanzanian adults.
This study aims to compare the burden of neurocysticercosis among people living with HIV to people not infected with HIV.
This multi-centre prospective cohort study of symptomatic patients with active neurocysticercosis (NCC) aims to identify factors related to treatment success of anthelmintic therapy. Neurological symptom/sign and cyst resolution, quality of life, accuracy and performance of serological T. solium diagnostics and NCC-specific immunological parameter will be followed up at multiple time points in the study. The final assessment will be done six months after the end of anthelmintic treatment. This study aims to guide treatment of NCC in sub-Saharan Africa by identifying factors that are associated with treatment outcomes. The factors that cause some people to fail complete resolution of all cysts and/or symptoms/signs are unknown.
Increased health education has the potential to facilitate better use of health care services and to promote early treatment, thus it can strengthen the health care system, and ultimately reduce morbidity and mortality. In this study, we will develop and test the effect of digital health messages related to HIV, Tuberculosis (TB) and Taenia solium cysticercosis/taeniosis (TSCT) (the intervention diseases) in Migoli and Izazi (the intervention villages), in Iringa, Tanzania (TZ). The intervention is planned as follows: A digital platform, providing the intervention villages with digital health messages related to the above-mentioned diseases, will be implemented in TZ in 2019. The platform will be accessible free of charge, through own devices and tablets based in the local Wi-Fi spots in the villages. In the first part of this project, the doctoral research fellow will participate in developing the digital health messages, together with experts from the medical and teaching environments in Tanzania, Norway, Germany and USA. The second part of the PhD-project consists of a cluster non-randomised controlled trial and semi-structured interviews in Tanzania. The digital health messages will be physically shown to the participants in the intervention group. The study is planned to investigate the knowledge related to the intervention diseases, before the intervention, immediately after exposure to the intervention, and at follow-up points throughout one year, after the intervention has been implemented. Semi-structured interviews with clients (users of the intervention) from each of the intervention villages are included, to explore the perception and reception of the intervention. The baseline study and the immediate after survey will take place in Tanzania in Q1 2019, while the other follow-up studies and interviews (3, 6 and 12 months after baseline) will be undertaken throughout one year.
The general objective of this study is to assess the therapeutic efficacy and safety of artesunate + amodiaquine combined with a single low dose of primaquine (0.25 mg/kg) for the treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria patients in Zanzibar. The specific objectives are: - To determine the clinical and parasitological efficacy of artesunate + amodiaquine and primaquine in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infection. - To differentiate recurrent infections during follow-up, i.e. recrudescence from new infections, by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). - To evaluate the incidence of adverse events, particularly with regards to potential hematological adverse events of primaquine. - To determine the polymorphism of molecular markers associated with artesunate + amodiaquine tolerance/resistance. - To formulate recommendations, which will enable the Zanzibar Ministry of Health to make informed decisions about whether the current national antimalarial treatment guidelines should be updated or not. - To determine efficacy rate of the first line treatment compared to the first efficacy trial thirteen years ago.
This study evaluates the effect of two different introduction modes on interactive voice response (IVR) survey cooperation, response, refusal, and contact rates, in Bangladesh and Tanzania.
This study evaluates the effect of three different airtime incentive amounts on interactive voice response (IVR) survey cooperation, response, refusal and contact rates, as compared to control group, in Colombia and Tanzania.
This study evaluates the effect of four different airtime incentive amounts on short message service (SMS) survey cooperation, response, refusal and contact rates, as compared to control group, in Colombia and Tanzania.
This study aims to evaluate the independent and combined effectiveness of engaging both mothers and fathers in bundled parenting and nutrition behavior change packages on early child nutrition and development.
This study will serve as a platform to evaluate new diagnostics in children suspected to have TB, establish diagnostic performance (sensitivity and specificity) and calculate positive and negative predictive values in a real-life cohort. Finally, this study will comprise the results of several tests in its database. This will allow simulation of diagnostic algorithms, that may be composed of screening (i.e. rule-out) tests together with confirmatory tests to maximize sensitivity and specificity.