28,797
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2007
Primary Completion Date
November 30, 2009
Study Completion Date
November 30, 2010
chx once
4.0% chlorhexidine cleansing of the cord applied once by a project worker visiting the newborn in the home as soon as possible after birth
CHX x 7 days
4.0% chlorhexidine cleansing of the cord during home visits by project workers for the first 7 days after birth
dry cord care
Household members are instructed to apply nothing to the newborn's umbilical cord stump.
Rural Sylhet District, Sylhet
Government of Bangladesh
OTHER_GOV
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
OTHER
Save the Children
OTHER
Shimantik
UNKNOWN
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
OTHER