A Trial of Zinc and Micronutrients in Tanzanian Children

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A randomized clinical trial of multiple micronutrients, zinc, zinc + micronutrients, or placebo among 2400 children born to HIV-negative Tanzanian mothers.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
• Collaborator: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Treatments: Micronutrients; Trace Elements; Vitamins; Zinc

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Singleton, live born infants born to HIV- negative women

• Mothers will need to have registered for pre-natal care before 34 weeks gestation

• intend to stay in Dar es Salaam for until delivery and 18 months thereafter.

Exclusion Criteria:

• infants born with multiple congenital abnormalities