Clinical trials: Child Mortality
Mortality, Resistance Bacterial
Azithromycin for Child Survival in Niger: Mortality and Resistance Trial
The MORDOR trial found that biannual distribution of azithromycin to children 1-59 months old reduced child mortality. The World Health Organization (WHO) released conditional guidelines for this intervention, which include…
- Conditions
- Mortality, Resistance Bacterial, Child, Only
- Trial name
- AVENIR (NCT04224987)
- Testing
- Azithromycin
- Where
- Niger
- Volunteers
- 864,493 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Child Growth, Diversity of Microbiome
MORDOR II Burkina Faso: Longitudinal Trial
Globally, childhood mortality has shown a promising downward trend in recent years, however, many sub-Saharan countries still have relatively high child mortality rates.
- Conditions
- Child Growth, Diversity of Microbiome, Child Mortality, Resistance Bacterial
- Trial name
- GAMIN (NCT03676751)
- Testing
- Azithromycin
- Where
- Burkina Faso
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Pneumonia, Diarrhea
Azithromycin to Prevent Post-discharge Morbidity and Mortality in Kenyan Children
Children hospitalized with severe illness in sub-Saharan Africa are at high risk of morbidity and mortality following discharge from hospital.
- Conditions
- Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Malaria, Co-infection
- Trial name
- Toto Bora (NCT02414399)
- Testing
- Azithromycin
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 1,400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Childhood Mortality
Neonates and Azithromycin, an Innovation in the Treatment of Children in Burkina Faso
Although under-5 mortality rates are declining globally, neonatal mortality remains persistently high in many regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
- Trial name
- NAITRE (NCT03682653)
- Testing
- Azithromycin
- Where
- Burkina Faso
- Volunteers
- 21,832 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Complication, Hemorrhage
ECMO Hemostatic Transfusions in Children
Critically ill children supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) receive large volumes of prophylactic platelet transfusions to prevent bleeding.
- Conditions
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Complication, Hemorrhage, Thromboembolism, Transfusion Adverse Reaction
- Trial name
- ECSTATIC (NCT05796557)
- Testing
- Platelet Transfusion
- Where
- 10 sites in United States, Israel
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Yale University