Active clinical trials for "Malaria"

Despite the use of highly effective anti-malarial medications, 10-30% of African children with severe malaria will die, underscoring the need for adjunctive therapies that can be applied in endemic areas. A clinical trial of adjunctive inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) in severe malaria is warranted on the basis of firm proof of concept from animal studies and a human study using the NO donor L-arginine, together with evidence of safety from clinical experience and trials of iNO for other conditions. Our objective is to determine whether supplemental iNO (80 ppm) in addition to Ugandan Standard of Care treatment reduces levels of Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), a quantitative biomarker of malaria severity, in children with severe malaria compared to Standard of Care treatment alone. We will conduct a randomized placebo-controlled trial among children 1-10 years of age admitted to Jinja Hospital (Uganda) with severe malaria to test the efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide in severe malaria.

An observational cohort and malaria treatment study in Cambodia.

A randomized controlled trial to assess the safety and efficacy of azithromycin combination therapy for use in severe malaria. This pilot trial will be conducted in uncomplicated malaria patients in southeastern Bangladesh.

This is a bi-centric phase IIIb, randomized, open label, 3-arm clinical trial performed to investigate the impact of retreatment with an Artemisinin-Based Combination (ACT), for example Arthemeter-Lumefantrine (AL) in Uganda (Ug) and artesunate-amodiaquine (ASAQ) in RDCongo, on malaria incidence and its potential selection of resistant strains. Patients will be followed-up for efficacy and safety during 42 days after treatment with the first line therapy recommended by the national authorities(arthemeter-lumefantrine in Uganda and artesunate-amodiaquine in RDCongo) and retreated the patients either with the same ACT or an other ACT or oral Quinine + clyndamicin. The investigators hypothesize that (re)treatment with the first line ACT treatment beyond 14 days is as efficacious as any other rescue treatment, without the risk of selecting drug resistant strains.

The aim of such a study is to evaluate the impact of a therapeutic dose of Eurartesim™ compared to Riamet®, after multiple dose administration for 3 days in healthy male and female subjects on electrocardiographic parameters.

This is an open label two-arm randomized prospective study of two treatments for P. vivax malaria. Patients meeting study inclusion criteria will be enrolled and allocated either chloroquine alone or chloroquine plus primaquine (0.25mg/kg/day for 14 days). Patients will be followed-up for 1 year, with clinical and laboratory examinations at each visit. Patients with recurrent P. vivax infection will be treated with the same medication as initially randomized unless contraindicated. Recurrences in the two arms will be compared to estimate the risk of and mean duration to relapse, classify the relapse pattern as early or late relapse and to estimate the efficacy and safety of the study drugs. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) analysis will be used as far as possible help to distinguish between relapse and re-infection. Samples for chloroquine pharmacokinetic analysis will be collected on day 7 from each study subject as well as on the day of recurrence if within 8 weeks of chloroquine

The primary objective of the study is to determine any drug interaction between the antimalarial Pyramax (pyronaridine artesunate) and the protease inhibitor ritonavir in healthy subjects. The secondary objective of the study is to assess further the safety of Pyramax in this setting.

Title: Efficacy and safety of artesunate-amodiaquine combined with methylene blue for falciparum malaria treatment in African children: randomised controlled trial. Design: Mono-centre, two arms, open randomized controlled study in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Burkina Faso. Phase: Phase II. Objectives: The primary objective of this trial is to study the efficacy and safety of the triple therapy artesunate (AS) - amodiaquine (AQ) - methylene blue (MB) given over three days in young children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Burkina Faso compared to the local standard three days artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) AS-AQ regimen. Population: Children aged 6-59 months with uncomplicated falciparum malaria from Nouna Hospital in north-western Burkina Faso. Sample size: 180 patients (90 per study arm).

The primary objective of this study is to determine the bioequivalence of the combination of pyronaridine and artesunate (180:60mg) to-be-marketed tablet to the clinical trial reference tablet administered as a single total dose of 720:240 mg in healthy adults. The secondary objective is to assess the safety of the two formulations.

To evaluate the causes of non-malarial febrile illness in children living in an area of perennial malaria transmission and to determine if these children who test negative for malaria by rapid diagnostic test receive any benefit from antimalarial therapy.