7,680
Participants
Start Date
December 31, 2010
Primary Completion Date
February 29, 2012
Study Completion Date
February 29, 2012
Daily preventive Zn; placebo treatment
7 mg zinc / day and placebo supplement during diarrhea episodes
Therapeutic Zn; daily placebo
20 mg zinc / day for 10 days during diarrhea episodes and daily placebo supplement
Intermittent Zn; placebo treatment
10 mg zinc for 10 days every 3 months, placebo supplements daily for all other days during 12 months; placebo supplements during diarrhea episodes
Surveillance control group
Active weekly morbidity surveillance for 3 months. New surveillance control group will be randomly assigned to intervention groups every 3 months
Institut de Recherche en Science de la Sante, Bobo-Dioulasso
Collaborators (1)
Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso
OTHER
Helen Keller International
OTHER
Thrasher Research Fund
OTHER
Canadian International Development Agency
OTHER_GOV
University of California, Davis
OTHER