Clinical trials: Pian

Yaws

Evaluation of an Intensive 3-round MDA Strategy Towards Yaws Eradication

• Completed
• Age: 6 months and older
• Phase 4

The current principle of yaws eradication (the Morges strategy) is based on single round mass drug administration (MDA) of azithromycin (AZI) called total community treatment (TCT) followed by targeted treatment of active cases…

Trial name

NCT03490123

Testing

R1-Total community treatment with azithromycin, R2-Total community treatment with azithromycin, R3-Total community treatment with azithromycin

Where

Papua New Guinea

Volunteers

56,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome

Sponsor

Lihir Medical Centre