The Effectiveness of Non-Pyrethroid Insecticide-Treated Durable Wall Liners as a Method for Malaria Control in Endemic Rural Tanzania

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2017-03-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Over one year period in an area with universal coverage of LLIN and ACT provision as the first-line treatment of malaria, the investigators intend to evaluate the impact of DL on malaria transmission as measured by the incidence of malaria parasitemia, the prevalence of moderate to severe anemia, and entomological parameters. Information on the relative cost-effectiveness estimates of DL and the community acceptability of DL will also be measured.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
• Collaborators: Brandeis University; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Treatments: Abamectin

Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Permanent residence in a selected household

• Aged 6 months- 11years for cohort study

• Informed parental consent

• For children between 8-11 years old, written assent

Exclusion criteria:

• Severely ill and unlikely to be able to complete the study

• Family does not intend to remain in the study area during the study period, or through the long rains

• Household does not accept intervention

• Not living in the study area when interventions were implemented

• enrolled in other interventional study