NCT01397851

Stimulating Private Sector Malaria Control

Stimulating Private Sector Malaria Control: The Outgrower Opportunity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 81,597 (actual)
• Sponsor: PATH · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Preliminary evidence from ongoing research provides strong indications that protecting farmers from malaria would be profitable for outgrowing agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. The study team invests in experimental research to investigate this conjecture in more detail.

Detailed description

The study evaluates whether the sourcing of insecticide-treated nets and their distribution to smallholder farmers for free would be a profitable investment for a cotton outgrowing agribusiness in Zambia. The study therefore carries out a major net distribution through the existing distribution channels of a cotton outgrowing agribusiness, evaluates the impact of this distribution on smallholder cotton yields, and values the profitability implications for the outgrowing agribusiness.

Conditions

• Malaria

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Insecticide-treated net (BASF Incerceptor)	One per farmer, once during the 2010-2011 season

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2011-07-20
• Last updated: 2023-12-15
• Results posted: 2015-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Zambia