Clinical trials: in Zambia
Violence by Teachers
School-based Prevention of Teacher Violence Against Children in Zambia
The United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child UN General Assembly, 1989), outlawed violence against children worldwide.
- Trial name
- ICC-T Zambia (NCT07773961)
- Testing
- Interaction Competencies with Children
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 700 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tobias Hecker, PhD
Hepatitis B, HIV
Integrating Hepatitis B Elimination Into the HIV Program in Zambia
The goal of this study is to develop an integrated HBV-HIV service care model in Zambia by working with people living with HBV, healthcare workers, policy makers and other key stakeholders to co-design an intervention.
- Conditions
- Hepatitis B, HIV, Implementation Science
- Trial name
- INTEGRATE B (NCT07875218)
- Testing
- Integrated HBV/HIV Service Delivery Model
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 460 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Sentinel Research Network (TB-SRN)
The overarching objective/aim of the study is to assess pulmonary TB treatment and longer-term outcomes among people with and without HIV in African population in order to inform policy and practice around TB treatment and create…
- Trial name
- IeDea TB-SRN (NCT07798167)
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 374 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
A Digital Escape Room to Teach Medical Students About Antimicrobial Resistance Using the One Health Approach
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a One Health-based educational intervention in final-year medical students from two universities in Norway and Zambia. The main question it aims to answer is: 1.
- Trial name
- NCT07848217
- Testing
- AMRageddon
- Where
- 2 sites in Norway, Zambia
- Volunteers
- 141 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Women With Disabilities
STI Screening for Women With Disabilities in Zambia
The goal of this observational study is to assess the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), mental health disorders, and substance abuse among women with physical and psychosocial disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia…
- Conditions
- Sexually Transmitted Infections, Women With Disabilities, Mental Health Conditions
- Trial name
- NCT07865234
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Long COVID
Long Covid (LC)-REVITALIZE - A Long Covid Repurposed Drug Study
The Long-Covid (LC)-Revitalize clinical study is testing repurposed drug treatments for Long Covid, involving adult participants from Brazil, Canada, Italy, South Africa, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
- Trial name
- NCT06928272
- Testing
- Pirfenidone, Upadacitinib
- Where
- 10 sites in United States, Brazil and 5 more
- Volunteers
- 348 people
- Sponsor
- Douglas D. Fraser
Cholera Vaccination Reaction
Phase 1b Ascending Dose Study of PanChol in Healthy Volunteers
Cholera is a serious diarrheal disease that can be fatal within hours of onset. The current available cholera vaccines to prevent the disease are not very effective.
- Trial name
- PanChol (NCT07107516)
- Testing
- PanChol
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Fetal Weight, Pregnancy
Prospective Evaluation of an AI Diagnostic Ultrasound Tool for Fetal Weight Estimation
Purpose: The primary objective of this study is to assess the diagnostic accuracy of an AI-enabled ultrasound tool for estimating fetal weight Participants: 1,000 pregnant individuals Procedures (methods): This prospective…
- Conditions
- Fetal Weight, Pregnancy, Machine Learning, Pregnancy - Prenatal Testing
- Trial name
- krittenhouse (NCT07661433)
- Testing
- AI ultrasound diagnostic tool for fetal weight estimation
- Where
- 6 sites in United States, Canada and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Vaccine Effectiveness, HPV Vaccination
A Trial to Establish Non-inferiority of Immunogenicity of a Single-dose of CERVAVAC® Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine Compared to the Gardasil® Quadrivalent Vaccine Among Girls and Boys Aged 9 to 14 Years and in Girls/Women Aged 15 to 20 Years in Zambia
The goal of this study is to compare the immune response of the single dose of the CERVAVAC vaccine with the single dose of Gardasil vaccine in girls/women aged 9 to 20 and boys aged 9 to 14 at 6 months, 12 months and 24 months…
- Conditions
- Vaccine Effectiveness, HPV Vaccination, Single Dose, Immunogenicity
- Trial name
- CervALONE (NCT07256912)
- Testing
- quadrivalent HPV vaccine
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 1,266 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
Focus of the Study is to Evaluate DSD Models for Both TB Treatment and TPT Usiing Key Performance Indicators
Adoption of Innovative Approaches to Ensure Continuity of Quality TB Services During COVID-19 Pandemic in Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia. (Telemedicine in TB)
Following the negative impact of public health program services including TB services by the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, CIDRZ conducted a program evaluation for remote patient follow up for TB treatment and prevention through a…
- Trial name
- Telemed TB (NCT06883643)
- Testing
- Differentiated service delivery approach (DSD) in TB treatment and prevention.
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 3,318 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Hypothermia, Immature Newborn
Evaluation of Use of Plastic Bags to Prevent Neonatal Hypothermia-Part I
The overall hypothesis is that plastic bags used in combination with WHO thermoregulation care will reduce the incidence of hypothermia in preterm/low birth weight and full term infants when compared to routine WHO…
- Trial name
- NCT01604317
- Testing
- Resuscitation-torso plastic bag, Resuscitation-partial-head plastic bag
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 182 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Pregnancy Related
Feasibility of Using NeoSpot at Community Settings
Continuous vital sign monitoring is a basic tenet of specialized care in the developed world that is vastly underutilized during hospital or clinic admissions or outpatient routine visits in most low-and-middle income countries…
- Trial name
- NCT05652777
- Testing
- NeoSpot
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 149 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
PrEP Uptake
Mixed-methods Protocol for the WiSSPr Study
WiSSPr is a prospective observational cohort study grounded in community-based participatory research principles with a community advisory board (CAB) of key population (KP) civil society organi sations (KP-CSOs) and the Ministry…
- Trial name
- WiSSPr (NCT06898112)
- Testing
- PrEP
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 299 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Feasibility Study, Vaccine Immune Response
How Gut Health Affects Immune Responses to the Oral Rotavirus Vaccine in Adults in Zambia
The Rotavirus SpatioTrasncriptomics (Rota-Omics) study is a multidisciplinary research project aimed at understanding why oral rotavirus vaccines perform less effectively in some low- and middle-income countries, including…
- Conditions
- Feasibility Study, Vaccine Immune Response, Rota Virus Gastroenteritis, Transcriptomics
- Trial name
- Rota-Omics (NCT07626606)
- Testing
- Rotarix®,
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Tuberculosis (TB)
Usability mTBScreen
Building on recent developments in the sphere of digital health and data science, as well as the principles of usability engineering, we propose to assess the usability of a digital tool called mTBscreen for tuberculosis (TB)…
- Trial name
- mTBscreen (NCT07840989)
- Testing
- mTBscreen Application, Mobile phone Application
- Where
- 4 sites in Zambia
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Tuberculosis, HIV
Validation of a Tuberculosis Treatment Decision Algorithm in HIV-infected Children (TB-Speed HIV)
TB-Speed HIV is a prospective multicentre management study evaluating the safety and feasibility of the recently proposed PAANTHER TB treatment decision algorithm for HIV-infected children with presumptive TB.
- Trial name
- NCT04121026
- Testing
- External validation of the PAANTHER TB treatment decision algorithm
- Where
- 7 sites in Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 278 people
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
Bioneer Q-RFIA Clinical Evaluation
Robust evidence on the clinical diagnostic accuracy and operational characteristics of the Bioneer Accupower Q-RFIA PCR kit on IRON qPCR is required to comprehensively evaluate validity of the Bioneer RFIA assay to support both…
- Trial name
- NCT05117788
- Testing
- Estimate the diagnostic accuracy of the Bioneer Accupower Q-RFIA PCR kit on IRON qPCR for MTB detection using culture as reference standard. Estimate the diagnostic accuracy of the Bioneer Ac
- Where
- 5 sites in Kenya, Moldova and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 2,350 people
- Sponsor
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland
HIV, Syphilis
Pilot HIV Self-Testing And Self-collected STI Testing Strategy for Sex Worker Empowerment Study
The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if sex work managers (also called "queen mothers") can help female sex workers (FSW) get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by giving out and collecting…
- Conditions
- HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia
- Trial name
- PHASES (NCT07829133)
- Testing
- Venue-based, peer-enhanced strategy for integrated HIV self-testing (and self-collected STI testing
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 232 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Low Birth Weight, Kangaroo Mother Care
Admission to Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Ward and Maternal Postpartum Depression
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if extended admission to the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) ward helps to prevent postpartum depression in mothers of low birthweight infants in a low-resource setting whose newborns were…
- Conditions
- Low Birth Weight, Kangaroo Mother Care, Postpartum Depression, Neurodevelopmental Outcome
- Trial name
- KMC PPD (NCT06545760)
- Testing
- Kangaroo mother care (KMC) support for > 2 days, Kangaroo mother care (KMC) support for < 2 days
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 1,908 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Severe Malaria, Thrombocytopenia
Platelet-Directed Whole Blood Transfusion Strategy for Malaria
Open-label randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of whole blood transfusion for improving survival in children with severe malaria complicated by thrombocytopenia.
- Trial name
- PLATFORM (NCT05711485)
- Testing
- Whole blood transfusion
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Zambia
- Volunteers
- 132 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health