London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine

This study is testing if adding a low-cost drug called methotrexate can help control painful skin flare-ups (ENL) in people with leprosy. It aims to reduce the need for long-term steroid use, which has serious side effects. The trial involves 550 adults with moderate-to-severe EN…

This study aims to find the best way to get people to wash their hands with soap more often. Researchers in Zambia are testing if giving households a handwashing station with soap, providing education on why handwashing is important, or using both methods together works best. The…

This study is testing two new types of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to see if they are better than standard nets at preventing malaria in children and communities. The trial involves 1,650 people across 33 villages in central Côte d'Ivoire, an area with high malaria rates an…

This study is testing whether giving girls just one or two doses of the HPV vaccine works as well as the standard three doses to prevent cervical cancer. It involves 930 girls aged 9-14 in Tanzania and will compare their immune responses over several years. The goal is to find a …

This study is testing if adding a single-dose HPV vaccine for teenage boys to the existing national vaccination program for girls can further reduce the spread of HPV in Tanzanian communities. It will compare infection rates in areas where only girls are vaccinated to areas where…