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Plasmodium vivax can form dormant liver stages that reactivate weeks or months following an acute infection. Recurrent infections can be associated with a febrile illness, a cumulative risk of severe anaemia, and even mortality. In co-endemic areas the risk of recurrence after both P. vivax and P. falciparum infections can be over 50% within 3 months. The only drug we have to kill P. vivax hypnozoites is primaquine which is currently given as a 14 day regimen. In Papua a retrospective study found very low effectiveness for unsupervised treatment. If true this has profound effects on treatment policy, suggesting that greater efforts are needed to encourage adherence to treatment.

We propose a cluster randomized, controlled, open label trial to assess the effectiveness of unsupervised versus supervised primaquine treatment in patients with uncomplicated malaria. Since the risk of recurrent P. vivax is high in patients with either P. vivax or P. falciparum, both infections will be included in the study. The study will be conducted in Mimika, in the southern part of Papua Province, Indonesia. Participants will be enrolled at village health posts and provided with schizontocidal treatment plus primaquine radical cure which will be either supervised or unsupervised depending on which cluster the clinic is in. Participants will be followed up for 6 months and assessed in regular intervals for the presence of patent and sub-patent malaria. The outcome of the study will contribute to an improved treatment scheme for uncomplicated malaria in this area.


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NCT number NCT02787070
Study type Interventional
Source Menzies School of Health Research
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 4
Start date September 14, 2016
Completion date November 2018

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