School-based Program for the Prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Endemic Regions

NANot yet recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

6,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

December 15, 2024

Primary Completion Date

February 29, 2028

Study Completion Date

February 29, 2028

Conditions
Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children
Interventions
OTHER

School nurse program

The intervention consists in the introduction of a school-nurse program providing health care through education about rheumatic heart disease, assessment, intervention, and follow-up of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis, and facilitation of secondary antibiotic prophylaxis for children with rheumatic heart disease.

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

UNKNOWN

collaborator

National Academy of Medical Sciences, Nepal

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

University of Oxford

OTHER

lead

Thomas Pilgrim

OTHER

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