Clinical trials: active, in Sierra Leone
Reproductive Health, Sexual Health
Estimating the Impact of Sexuality Education and Mobile Health Services on Reproductive Health and Empowerment Among Adolescents in Sierra Leone for the Family Planning Impact Lab
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to learn if comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and access to mobile sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in secondary schools can improve short- and long-term health…
- Conditions
- Reproductive Health, Sexual Health, Contraception Behavior, Pregnancy (Unwanted)
- Trial name
- REACH (NCT07860723)
- Testing
- Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Mobile SRH services
- Where
- Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 5,300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Guttmacher Institute
Severe Acute Malnutrition, Cognitive Impairment
Milk Fat Globule Membrane-Enhanced RUTF for Children With Severe Acute Malnutrition
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the use of milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) in ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in children with severe acute malnutrition in Sierra Leone.
- Conditions
- Severe Acute Malnutrition, Cognitive Impairment, Kwashiorkor, Severe Wasting
- Trial name
- MEND-SAM (NCT06869850)
- Testing
- MFGM-RUTF (milk fat globule membrane ready-to-use therapeutic food), S-RUTF (standard ready-to-use therapeutic food), Amoxicillin
- Where
- 10 sites in Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 1,600 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety State
Intergenerational Study of War-Affected Youth
War-related violence is a leading driver of mental disorders and illness affecting children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
- Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety State, Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorders
- Trial name
- ISWAY (NCT06440460)
- Where
- Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 804 people
- Sponsor
- Boston College
Mental Health
Advancing mHealth-supported Adoption and Sustainment of an Evidence-based Mental Health Intervention in Sierra Leone
This study will examine a new implementation strategy for the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI), an evidence-based mental health intervention.
- Trial name
- NCT05737667
- Testing
- Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI)
- Where
- Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 1,454 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Ebola Virus Disease
REVIVE (Response to the Ebola Virus Vaccine)
This study is a vaccine-related clinical trial which will be conducted by our study team at Kenema Government Hospital (KGH)'s Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Program in collaboration with Tulane University School of Medicine.
- Trial name
- NCT05992480
- Testing
- rVSVDG-ZEBOV-GP Ebola Virus Vaccine (ERVEBO)
- Where
- Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tulane University
Malnutrition in Pregnancy, Preterm Birth
Improving Cognition and Gestational Duration With Targeted Nutrition
The goal of this clinical trial is to test (1) a novel maternal ready-to-use supplementary food and (2) a novel cognitive behavioral therapy intervention in undernourished Sierra Leonean women.
- Conditions
- Malnutrition in Pregnancy, Preterm Birth, Child Development, Postpartum Depression
- Trial name
- COGENT (NCT05949190)
- Testing
- M-RUSF+ (Maternal Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food + DHA/EPA/choline), M-RUSF (Maternal Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food), Azithromycin
- Where
- 10 sites in Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 1,660 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Cost of ICU, Out of Pocket Expenses
ICU-related Out of Pocket Expenses (ICOPE)
The ICU-related Out-of-Pocket Expenses (ICOPE) study is a multinational, prospective observational study conducted in African and Asian countries to quantify ICU-related out-of-pocket expenditures and catastrophic health…
- Trial name
- ICOPE (NCT07439692)
- Where
- 44 sites in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and 10 more
- Volunteers
- 354 people
- Sponsor
- Nat Intensive Care Surveillance - MORU
HPV, High-risk HPV (Any Strain)
Study Assessing Reduced HPV Infectivity and Transmission in HPV-Positive Women Following Vaccination With 9vHPV
This is a randomized, open-label trial, to assess whether a single dose of HPV nonavalent vaccine, administered to HIV uninfected, unvaccinated women with high risk HPV16/18/31/33/45/52 or 58 can decrease the infectivity of shed…
- Conditions
- HPV, High-risk HPV (Any Strain), Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infections
- Trial name
- RIFT-SSA (NCT07303751)
- Testing
- Nonavalent HPV vaccine (9vHPV)
- Where
- Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge
Ebola Virus Disease
EBOla Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
EBO-PEP is a multicentre, multi-epidemic, phase III, comparative, controlled, randomised, strict superiority trial in two unblinded parallel arms.
- Trial name
- EBO-PEP (NCT06841614)
- Testing
- Ervebo, Inmazeb
- Where
- 4 sites in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- ANRS, Emerging Infectious Diseases
HIV Disease Progression
Reducing Mortality in Adults With Advanced HIV Disease (REVIVE)
A double blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial to evaluate effectiveness of azithromycin prophylaxis on mortality in advanced HIV.
- Trial name
- REVIVE (NCT05580666)
- Testing
- Azithromycin Oral Tablet
- Where
- 52 sites in Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia and 9 more
- Volunteers
- 8,000 people
- Sponsor
- Population Health Research Institute
HPV Infection
Global Burden Estimation of Human Papillomavirus (GLOBE-HPV)
This study is a multi-country and multi-site project to estimate the point-prevalence of high-risk (HR) HPV genotype infections among representative samples of girls and women aged 9-50 years, and among specific sub-populations…
- Trial name
- HPV (NCT06129253)
- Testing
- Urine Sample Collection, Self-collected Vaginal Swab, Blood Samples
- Where
- 8 sites in Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo and 6 more
- Volunteers
- 29,750 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Vaccine Institute
Device Related Infection, Device Malfunction
Project My Heart Your Heart: Pacemaker Reuse
Lack of access to pacemakers is a major challenge to the provision of cardiovascular health care in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC).
- Conditions
- Device Related Infection, Device Malfunction, Bradycardia
- Trial name
- MHYH (NCT04016870)
- Testing
- Reconditioned Pacemaker, New Pacemaker
- Where
- 8 sites in Kenya, Mexico and 5 more
- Volunteers
- 370 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Skin Infection, Staphylococcal Infections
Adjunctive Clindamycin for the Treatment of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, a Randomized Controlled Trial
This is an exploratory study to evaluate the effect of adjunctive clindamycin in the treatment of skin and soft-tissue infections due to Staphylococcus aureus in patients from Sierra Leone.
- Conditions
- Skin Infection, Staphylococcal Infections, Staphylococcus Aureus Infection
- Trial name
- SoTiClin (NCT05899140)
- Testing
- Clindamycin, Standard of care
- Where
- Sierra Leone
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Frieder Schaumburg