A community-based, open-label, cluster-randomised longitudinal study in which children are randomized according to village health worker catchment areas comparing the safety and effectiveness of repeated treatments with artemether-lumefantrine (AL) over a 3-year period in children 4-48 months to that of repeated treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-PPQ).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,200
Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, College of Medicine
Blantyre, Malawi
RECRUITINGPrevalence of ototoxicity at 18 months and 36 months of enrolment.
Time frame: At 18 mo and 36 month of follow up
Incidence of clinical malaria during 18 months and 36 months of follow-up
Time frame: 18 and 36 months of follow up
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