Prevention of Intrauterine Growth Retardation in Hounde District, Burkina Faso: the Malaria Component

NCT00680732 Phase 4 COMPLETED

Our objective was to investigate the importance of malaria infection/disease during pregnancy and more particularly during the first trimester; we also looked at the maternal-foetal interactions and their influence on the subsequent child's response to malaria infections during the first year of life. This study was carried out !in the same population recruited for the IUGR study (NCT00642408).

Details

Lead sponsor	Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Phase	Phase 4
Status	COMPLETED
Enrolment	1370
Start date	2003-06
Completion	2006-10

Conditions

• Malaria
• Malaria in Pregnancy

Interventions

• Multiple micronutrients supplements (MMS)
• Iron and folic acid (IFA)
• Chloroquine (CQ)
• Sulphadoxyne-pyrimethamine (SP)

Primary outcomes

• Efficacy of standard antimalarial treatment in preventing clinical malaria in pregnant women under weekly chemoprophylaxis or intermittent treatment. — Up to delivery

Countries

Burkina Faso