Malaria prevention study pulled before it began
NCT ID NCT04416945
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aimed to see if sending health workers to find malaria cases in high-risk villages and among forest workers could lower malaria rates better than usual care. It planned to track infections over 18 months in southern Laos. However, the study was withdrawn before any participants were enrolled, so no results are available.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2020
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2021
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 months and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
RACD: \- Inclusion Criteria * Inclusion Criteria for index cases: Presented as a confirmed malaria case to an intervention health facility or village malaria worker, and lives in a village within a selected intervention health facility catchment area, or worked or spent at least one night at a forest or forest-fringe site in the past 30 days located within an intervention health facility catchment area * Inclusion criteria for village residents: Lives in a village within a selected intervention health facility catchment area and in one of the five households closest to the residence of an index case of malaria * Inclusion criteria for co-worker/traveler referral: Worked or traveled and spent at least one night in forest in past 30 days in same location within an intervention health facility catchment area as an index case of malaria * Inclusion criteria for all participants: Willing and available to participate in the study Informed consent for participant under the age of 18 will be provided by the parent or guardian. \- Exclusion Criteria: * Previous participation in the study as a result of any RACD event in the past 30 days. * Individuals with suspected severe malaria or other severe illness (including those with symptoms of severe anemia, prostration, impaired consciousness, respiratory distress, convulsions, circulatory collapse, abnormal bleeding, jaundice or passing dark urine) will be excluded from the treatment component and referred to the nearest health facility for clinical assessment and treatment
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Center for Malariology, Parasitology, Entomology, Laos Ministry of Health
Vientiane, Laos
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