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Mass Drug Administration With High-Dose Ivermectin and Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for Malaria Elimination in an Area of Low Transmission With High Coverage of Malaria Control Interventions: Protocol for the MASSIV Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

Dabira, Edgard Diniba, Soumare, Harouna M, Lindsay, Steven W, Conteh, Bakary, Ceesay, Fatima, Bradley, John, Kositz, Christian, Broekhuizen, Henk, Kandeh, Balla, Fehr, Alexandra E, Nieto-Sanchez, Claudia, Ribera, Joan Muela, Peeters Grietens, Koen, Smit, Menno ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3405-6638, Drakeley, Chris, Bousema, Teun, Achan, Jane and D’Alessandro, Umberto (2020) 'Mass Drug Administration With High-Dose Ivermectin and Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for Malaria Elimination in an Area of Low Transmission With High Coverage of Malaria Control Interventions: Protocol for the MASSIV Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial'. JMIR Research Protocols, Vol 9, Issue 11, e20904.

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Abstract

Background: With a decline in malaria burden, innovative interventions and tools are required to reduce malaria transmission further. Mass drug administration (MDA) of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been identified as a potential tool to further reduce malaria transmission, where coverage of vector control interventions is already high. However, the impact is limited in time. Combining an ACT with an endectocide treatment that is able to reduce vector survival, such as ivermectin (IVM), could increase the impact of MDA and offer a new tool to reduce malaria transmission.

Objective: The study objective is to evaluate the impact of MDA with IVM plus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) on malaria transmission in an area with high coverage of malaria control interventions.

Methods: The study is a cluster randomized trial in the Upper River Region of The Gambia and included 32 villages (16 control and 16 intervention). A buffer zone of ~2 km was created around all intervention clusters. MDA with IVM plus DP was implemented in all intervention villages and the buffer zones; control villages received standard malaria interventions according to the Gambian National Malaria Control Program plans.

Results: The MDA campaigns were carried out from August to October 2018 for the first year and from July to September 2019 for the second year. Statistical analysis will commence once the database is completed, cleaned, and locked.

Conclusions: This is the first cluster randomized clinical trial of MDA with IVM plus DP. The results will provide evidence on the impact of MDA with IVM plus DP on malaria transmission.

Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03576313; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03576313

International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/20904

Item Type: Article
Subjects: QV Pharmacology > Anti-Inflammatory Agents. Anti-Infective Agents. Antineoplastic Agents > QV 256 Antimalarials
WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 110 Prevention and control of communicable diseases. Transmission of infectious diseases
WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 750 Malaria
WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 765 Prevention and control
Faculty: Department: Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI): https://doi.org/10.2196/20904
Depositing User: Stacy Murtagh
Date Deposited: 20 Nov 2020 11:06
Last Modified: 20 Nov 2020 11:06
URI: https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/16165

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