The Effect of Malaria on Disease Progression of HIV/AIDS

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out whether malaria affects how HIV/AIDS disease progresses in an infected patient, and to determine the effect of reducing malaria infection on HIV disease progression in Kumasi

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Gates Malaria Partnership; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Collaborator: Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
• Treatments: Mefloquine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult HIV patients attending the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) HIV clinic who do not yet fulfil the criteria for ARTs. This includes a CD 4 cell count of ≥ 300x106/l and World Health Organisation HIV stage I-III

Exclusion Criteria:

• All children with HIV infection attending the HIV clinic at KATH

• Adult HIV patients on ARTs attending the HIV clinic at KATH

• Adult HIV patients with WHO stage IV and V AIDS