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    Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine or sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for the chemoprevention of malaria in children with sickle cell anaemia in eastern and southern Africa (CHEMCHA): a protocol for a multi-centre, two-arm, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled superiority trial

    An estimated 300,000 babies are born with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) annually. Affected children have chronic ill health and suffer premature death. Febrile illnesses such as malaria commonly precipitate acute ...

    Thandile Nkosi-Gondwe, Bjarne Robberstad, Robert Opoka, Dennis Kalibbala in Trials (2023)

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    Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome (DONS); the study protocol of a phase II randomised controlled trial

    Nodding syndrome is a poorly understood neurological disorder of unknown aetiology, affecting several thousand children in Africa. There has been a consistent epidemiological association with infection by the ...

    Richard Idro, Ronald Anguzu, Rodney Ogwang, Pamela Akun, Catherine Abbo in BMC Neurology (2019)