Actively Recruiting

Phase 4
Age: 5Years - 17Years
All Genders
Healthy Volunteers
NCT06967519

OPTImizing Malaria And HIV Treatment in a Shifting Landscape in Africa

Led by Yale University · Updated on 2026-02-04

380

Participants Needed

2

Research Sites

101 weeks

Total Duration

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Sponsors

Y

Yale University

Lead Sponsor

E

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Collaborating Sponsor

AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

A longitudinal study with four parallel cohorts with each participant followed for 2 years: two cohorts in Busia (high malaria transmission site) and two cohorts in Kampala (low malaria transmission). Each site will have a cohort of children living with HIV (CLHIV) and HIV- uninfected children and will be age-matched, enrolled in parallel, and followed for two years. All children will be enrolled without malaria infection, as determined by a negative blood smear at baseline.

CONDITIONS

Official Title

OPTImizing Malaria And HIV Treatment in a Shifting Landscape in Africa

Who Can Participate

Age: 5Years - 17Years
All Genders
Healthy Volunteers

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Agreement to come to the clinic for all follow-up evaluations
  • Provision of informed consent and assent (as appropriate)
  • Residency within approximately 30 km of the study clinic
  • Negative blood smear for malaria at baseline
  • For children living with HIV: confirmed HIV infection
  • For children living with HIV: on a dolutegravir-based regimen for at least 14 days
  • For HIV-uninfected children: documented HIV-negative status by at least one assay
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Significant comorbidities such as malignancy, active tuberculosis, chronic or active hepatitis B or C, diabetes, severe acute malnutrition, or mitochondrial disorders
  • Receiving known CYP interacting drugs at enrollment (except HAART)
  • Anemia with hemoglobin less than 7.0 at enrollment
  • Signs of uncomplicated or severe malaria at enrollment
  • Prior intolerance to artemether-lumefantrine or artesunate-amodiaquine (for those in Busia only)
  • Pregnancy at enrollment
  • Concurrent enrollment in another research study

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 2 locations

1

Baylor- Uganda

Kampala, Uganda

Actively Recruiting

2

Infectious Disease Research Collaboration (IDRC)

Kampala, Uganda

Actively Recruiting

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Research Team

S

Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

NONE

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

TREATMENT

Number of Arms

4

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