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.
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 Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
11,500
Groupe de Recherche Action en Sante (GRAS sarl)
Ouagadougou, Kadiogo, Burkina Faso
Number of death in children aged 6 to 59 months
annual crude mortality rate in children aged 0 to 6 months in the different study arms
Time frame: 12 months
- specific mortality preceded by acute febrile illness of children aged 6 to 59 months - severe malaria cases at community level
Time frame: 12 months
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