Kamija Phiri Community Health Department, College of Medicine

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Kamija Phiri1,2; Michael Esan1,2; Michael Boele van Hensbroek3; Carole Khairallah4; Brian Faragher4; Feiko O ter Kuile4 1Community Health Department, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 2MLW Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 3Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Kamija Phiri Community Health Department, College of Medicine, University of Malawi

30% paediatric admissions 6% in-hospital mortality Complex aetiology malaria important factor

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Months followed-up

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Community controls

Hospital controls

Cases

In-hospital mortality: 6%

6 months mortality: 8%

Phiri et al,

Plos One

2008

Post-discharge mortality by 6

months was 5x higher than

hospital controls without severe

anaemia (1.6%)

recrudescence re-infection

In-hospital

Stabilize child

Blood transfusion

Parenteral quinine switch to oral ACT

Short-course antibiotics (empirical)

▪ parenteral oral

Post-discharge

No policy for follow-up or interventions

To determine if 3 months of malaria chemoprevention with IPTpd reduces the incidence of deaths or readmissions due to severe anaemia or severe malaria compared to the standard single treatment course of AL on discharge

Hb

Protection

discharge 3 months

Intermittent Preventive Therapy Post-discharge IPTpd

Design trial Multi-centre, double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, superiority Primary endpoint: composite of death or re-admission due to severe

anaemia or severe malaria Study population Aged 4-59 months; admitted for severe anaemia Stable and able to switch to oral medication Completed blood transfusion & parenteral quinine

Interventions Group A. IPTpd with Coartem - given at 1 & 2 month post-discharge Group B. IPTpd with Placebo - given at 1 & 2 month post-discharge Both groups LA (Coartem at discharge)

Follow-up 0-6 month: Passive case detection; at 6 month: cross-sectional survey

R

E

C

R

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E

D

Randomised

In-hospital Post-discharge

Group A

Group B

Treatment

0 IPTpd

1 IPTpd

2

At discharge 1 month 2 month 6 month

LA

LA

LA LA

PL PL

LA= lumefantrine-artemether (Coartem®) PL= Placebo

3 months chemoprevention

3 month

1 month

Eligible Children randomized

(n=1414)

Died (n=16)

Lost (n=35)

Died (n=18)

Lost (n=35)

Completed 6

month

follow-up

(n=657)

Completed 6

month

follow-up

(n=653)

Allocated to

placebo

(n=708)

Allocated to

IPTpd

(n=706)

1414 children recruited June 2006 - Aug 2009 By 6 months

Lost-to-FU 70 (5.0%)

Died 34 (2.4%)

Placebo (708) IPTpd (706)

Mean (SD) age in months 24.2 (13.3) 23.7 (13.5)

Male (%) 47.3 49.4

Bednet use 51.6 52.8

Cerebral malaria on admission (%) 4.4 6.4

Previous Blood transfusion (%) 12.3 11.2

Fever at randomisation (%) 10.6 12.7

Malaria smear+ at randomization (%) 32.8 35.6

HIV (%) Positive 6.6 9.3

Negative 81.2 77.6

Exposed/refusals 12.1 13.0

LA1

P1

LA

LA

LA2

P2 P= Placebo

LA= Lumefantrine-Artemether

Cox regression for repeated events (robust standard errors)

Cu

m H

aza

rd

Days

Period PE 95% CI P

1-6m

1-3m

4-6m

Intervention Extended FU

LA1

P1

LA

LA

LA2

P2 P= Placebo

LA= Lumefantrine-Artemether

Cox regression for repeated events (robust standard errors)

Cu

m H

aza

rd

Days

Period PE 95% CI P

1-6m

1-3m

4-6m

LA1

P1

LA

LA

LA2

P2 P= Placebo

LA= Lumefantrine-Artemether

Cox regression for repeated events (robust standard errors)

Cu

m H

aza

rd

Days

Period PE 95% CI P

1-6m 31 (5 to 50) 0.022

1-3m

4-6m

LA1

P1

LA

LA

LA2

P2 P= Placebo

LA= Lumefantrine-Artemether

Cox regression for repeated events (robust standard errors)

Cu

m H

aza

rd

Days

Period PE 95% CI P

1-6m 31 (5 to 50) 0.022

1-3m 41 (10 to 62) 0.014

4-6m

LA1

P1

LA

LA

LA2

P2 P= Placebo

LA= Lumefantrine-Artemether

Cox regression for repeated events (robust standard errors)

Cu

m H

aza

rd

Days

Period PE 95% CI P

1-6m 31 (5 to 50) 0.022

1-3m 41 (10 to 62) 0.014

4-6m 18 (-25 to 47) 0.355

1-3 Months (chemoprevention)

1-6 Month (+ extended follow-up)

Primary endpoint (Deaths or readmission due

severe anaemia/severe malaria)

41% (p=.01) 31% (p=.02)

All-cause hospitalization 38% (p=.01) 30% (p=.02)

Uncomplicated malaria 49% (p<.0001) 21% (p=.008)

No effect modification by age or ITNs (effective in all age groups, ITN users and non-users)

Investigators Kamija Phiri Michael Esan Michael Boele van Hensbroek Carol Khairallah Brian Faragher Feiko ter Kuile

Committee / monitors Sarah White (stats, Rx allocation) Victor Mwapasa (TSC) Neil French (TSC) Malcolm Molyneux (TSC) Elizabeth Molyneux (safety monitor) Geoffrey Targett (DSMB) Paul Milligan (DSMB) Enitan Carrol (DSMB)

Institutions College of Medicine University of Amsterdam Liverpool School of

Tropical Medicine (sponsor)

Funding NACCAP, Netherlands Gates Malaria Partnership UBS-Optimus Foundation

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