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Filter by:This study is a randomized, open-labeled phase IV clinical trial to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of concomitant administration of sIPV and HepA-L or HepA-I in children aged 18 months. The primary immunogenicity endpoints in all groups are the seroconversion rates of type I, II, and III anti-poliovirus neutralizing antibodies and the seroconversion rate of anti-hepatitis A virus antibodies 30 days after the final administration. The secondary immunogenicity endpoints are (1) the GMT/GMC of type I, II, and III anti-poliovirus neutralizing antibodies as well as the anti-hepatitis A virus antibodies 30 days after the final administration; (2) the seropositive rates of the anti-hepatitis A virus antibodies 30 days after the final administration; (3) the GMFI of type I, II, and III anti-poliovirus neutralizing antibodies as well as the anti-hepatitis A virus antibodies 30 days after the final administration. The secondary safety endpoints are the incidence of adverse events (AEs) within 30 minutes after each injection, the incidence of solicited local and systematic AEs in the period of solicitation after each injection, the incidence of unsolicited AEs in 30 days after each injection, the incidence of AEs in 30 days after each injection, and the incidence of serious adverse events in 6 months after administrations.
The goal of this clinical trial is to explore two strategies to enhance nOPV2 immunogenicity in the field and overcome potential interference of bOPV: 1. Addition of IPV after one or several doses of nOPV2 and bOPV to close remaining immunity gaps; 2. Separation of bOPV and nOPV2 with an interval of 4 weeks. Participants at 6 weeks of age will be enrolled and randomized to one of four arms receiving the different polio vaccines; nOPV2, bOPV and IPV, in different combination schedule. The target enrolment is 220 infants per arm for a total of 880. Blood will be collected from all participants to measure Poliovirus antibody titers to types 1, 2 and 3.
Routine childhood immunization (RCI) in Pakistan is well below the recommended coverage of 90% with rates as low as 16% in certain regions (Pakistan DHS 2012-3). This has led to continued polio transmission, large measles outbreaks and thousands of deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases (Kazi.Bull WHO 2016). Mobile phone communication is widespread in developing countries and has proven a potential method of directly connecting pregnant women and mothers to health services (Kharbanda. Expert Review of Vaccine 2014). The investigators propose conducting a mixed methods proof of concept cluster randomized trial (CRT) to assess the effectiveness of different types of SMS messaging and automated calls to improve RCI and understand the perceptions and barriers that may affect SMS and automated call-based interventions at participants levels. the investigators will conduct the study at urban and rural sites in Pakistan. The investigators will examine an important public health question - do low cost, automated SMS, and automated messages improve RCI coverage in resource-constrained settings? Further, investigators will compare the effectiveness of reminder, educational and interactive text messages for improving RCI and will generate socio-cultural data regarding the impact of participants health beliefs that will be important for setting up the appropriate interventions in other LMICs.