Home Management of Malaria and Pneumonia — HMM/P  

Malaria Clinical Trial

Official title: Home and Community Management of Fevers/Malaria and Pneumonia in Children Under-five: a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of an Integrated Approach in a Rural District of Burkina Faso

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

A well-implemented community-based program of early and appropriate treatment of fevers/malaria episodes and pneumonia,will improve child survival as measured by a reduction of the less than five mortality rate.

Clinical Trial Description

An integrated approach of home and community management of malaria and pneumonia may increase the proportion of children receiving prompt treatment; improve child survival as measured by a reduction of the under five mortality rate. To test this hypothesis, a cluster randomised controlled trial will be performed, involving children less than 5 years of age, in Burkina Faso using a community-based supplying community health workers (CHWs), a core group of mothers (KOLs) with Coartem and cotrimoxazole specially packed in age-specific blisters containing a full course of treatment. The study will be carried out in 111 clusters of a rural district in Burkina Faso where malaria and pneumonia are two major mortality causes in under five mortality. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malaria
• Pneumonia

• NCT number: NCT02151578
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: World Health Organization
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Start date: January 2009
• Completion date: September 2012