Active clinical trials for "Malaria"

A phase Ib age de-escalation and dose escalation open label clinical trial of the safety, immunogenicity and ex-vivo efficacy of a candidate malaria vaccine Pfs25-IMX313/Matrix-M administered intramuscularly in healthy adults and young children in Tanzania

This study aims to evaluate PK, safety, tolerability and efficacy of a new formulation of artemether-lumefantrine dispersible tablet in neonates and infants <5 kg body weight with acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Malaria remains a public health concern, despite efforts that are invested in the disease control. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the most affected countries in Sub Saharan Africa. Artemisinin-based combination treatments (ACTs) are recommended for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. However, reported cases of mutations that confer to Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin (the main component of ACTs) constitute a threat to malaria control, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. Therefore, the recommendation of the World Health Organization to conduct regularly test efficacy studies in endemic countries is paramount. The purpose of this trial is to assess efficacy and safety of artesunate-amodiaquine (ASAQ Winthrop®) and artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem Dispersible®) at day 28 for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in eight surveillance sites around DRC.

To study if a proactive strategy of weekly household visits by community health workers (CHWs) to identify people with malaria symptoms, offer diagnostic testing, and treatment for those with positive tests in Chadiza District, Eastern Province, can decrease malaria incidence and prevalence compared to conventional community case management.

Malaria remains a major infectious disease causing a heavy burden of mortality and morbidity in populations living in tropical and subtropical regions. Large, international research efforts have been invested into the development of anti-malaria vaccination strategies, however, currently there is only one malaria vaccine approved for use in the pediatric population, which provides a moderate and short-lived protection. Therefore, there is a need to develop a malaria vaccine that will be essential to further strengthen malaria control measures in future. A Phase Ia trial with the same IMP (SumayaVac-1 vaccine developed using a full-length recombinant MSP-1 administered along with the adjuvant GLA-SE) in Caucasians in Heidelberg, Germany, proved to be well tolerated and safe. However, a Phase Ib clinical trial on healthy participants residing in a malaria endemic country would be essential to evaluate the safety and reactogenicity in the target population. The project aims to investigate the safety, reactogenicity, immunogenicity of the candidate malaria vaccine, SumayaVac-1 (SUM-101) in 40 healthy participants (men and women) of African origin in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. It will also employ the Controlled Human Malaria Infection model to evaluate the ability of this vaccine candidate to induce immune responses that prevent malaria parasites from getting into the red blood cells thereby preventing development of malaria.

The study aims to assess the chemoprevention efficacy of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine and Amodiaquine (SPAQ) used in standard age-based dosing regimens used in Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) and SPAQ resistance marker prevalences and assocations among children 3 - 59 months in Sokoto and Kwara States, Nigeria.

Two-arm, randomized, double-blinded and controlled clinical trial to first assess the safety and tolerability of the vaccine in a Phase 1b trial and proceed to assess its efficacy against clinical malaria in young children living in highly seasonal malaria areas of Mali

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a one time SC administration of L9LS in healthy adults in Mali, as well as its protective efficacy against naturally occurring Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) infection over a 6-month malaria season. A secondary objective is to determine if SC administration of L9LS at 900 mg (compared to placebo) mediates protection against naturally occurring Pf infection in healthy Malian adult females stratified by weight during a single malaria season.

A Phase Ib trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of R21/Matrix-M™ in African children living with HIV

This is an Open label, first-in-human, Phase I/IIa, blood-stage P. vivax malaria vaccine trial to assess the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the blood-stage Plasmodium vivax malaria vaccine candidate PvDBPII in Matrix M1 in healthy adults living in the UK.