Status:

COMPLETED

Chlorproguanil-Dapsone-Artesunate Versus COARTEM For Uncomplicated Malaria

Lead Sponsor:

GlaxoSmithKline

Conditions:

Malaria, Falciparum

Eligibility:

All Genders

12-14 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

Chlorproguanil-dapsone has been approved for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a number of countries across sub-Sahara Africa, and by the UK's Medicines and Healthcare pr...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria:
  • Acute, uncomplicated P.falciparum malaria, microscopically confirmed
  • Temperature at screening of 37.5oC or or more or confirmed history of fever within previous 24 hours
  • Weigh 7.5kg or over
  • Screening haemoglobin (Hb) of 7g/dl or over, or haematocrit of 25% or more(If Hb not available at screening)
  • Willingness to comply with the study visits and procedures, as outlined in the informed consent form
  • Written or oral witnessed consent has been obtained from parent or guardian
  • Assent is given by a child aged 12 years or over, in addition to the consent of their parent or guardian
  • Exclusion criteria:
  • Features of severe/complicated falciparum malaria
  • Hypersensitivity to active substances (chlorproguanil, dapsone, artesunate, artemether, lumefantrine)
  • Known allergy to biguanides, sulphones, sulphonamides, artemisinin derived products or aminoalcohol drugs
  • Known history of G6PD deficiency
  • Infants with a history of hyperbilirubinaemia during the neonatal period
  • Use of concomitant medications that may induce haemolysis or haemolytic anaemia from the WHO (World Health Organization) list of essential drugs
  • Evidence of any concomitant infection at the time of presentation (including P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariae)
  • Any other underlying disease that may compromise the diagnosis and the evaluation of the response to the study medication (including clinical symptoms of immunosuppression, tuberculosis, bacterial infection; cardiac or pulmonary disease)
  • Malnutrition, defined as a child whose weight-for-height is below -3 standard deviations or less than 70% of the median of the NCHS/WHO normalised reference values
  • Treatment within the past three months with mefloquine or mefloquine-sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine; twenty-eight days with sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine, sulfalene/pyrimethamine, lumefantrine or artemether/lumefantrine, amodiaquine, atovaquone or atovoquone/proguanil, halofantrine; 14-days with chlorproguanil/dapsone, or 7-days with quinine (full course), proguanil, artemisinins, tetracycline doxycycline or clindamycin
  • Positive sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine urine screen for 'unknown' antimalarial drug use in prior 28-days
  • Use of an investigational drug within 30 days or 5 half-lives whichever is the longer
  • Previous participation in this study
  • Female subjects of child-bearing age, who have had a positive pregnancy test at screening, or do not give their consent to take a pregnancy test
  • Female subjects who will be breast-feeding an infant for the duration of the study

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    June 1 2006

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    August 1 2007

    Estimated Enrollment :

    1395 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00344006

    Start Date

    June 1 2006

    End Date

    August 1 2007

    Last Update

    December 5 2016

    Active Locations (9)

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    GSK Investigational Site

    Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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    GSK Investigational Site

    Kintampo, Ghana

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    GSK Investigational Site

    Eldoret, Kenya

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    GSK Investigational Site

    Kilifi, Kenya