NCT00197652

Botswana Diarrheal Diseases Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,350 (actual)
• Sponsor: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goals of this study are to: 1. determine the diarrheal rates, morbidity, mortality, and pathogens present among breast-fed infants born to HIV-infected mothers. * analysis by HIV status of infants, method of feeding, HIV viral loads / CD4 counts of infected mothers. * comparison to rates among infants born to HIV uninfected mothers. 2. link analysis of the functional quality of immunoglobulins in the breast milk of HIV-infected and uninfected mothers.

Conditions

• HIV Infections

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-03-01
• Primary completion: 2003-10-01
• Completion: 2008-03-01
• First posted: 2005-09-20
• Last updated: 2011-10-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Botswana