Safe Drinking Water For Households With Infants Born to HIV-Positive Mothers Pilot Study (SWIM)

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diarrhea; HIV Infection

Treatments: Device: LifeStraw Family

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01116908

QA270

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess whether children under 2 years and other members of households in which HIV-positive mothers are providing replacement and complementary feeding would potentially benefit from the use of a filter designed to eliminate microbial pathogens from drinking water at the household level.

Full description

Contaminated drinking water is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income settings. Safe drinking water is of particular concern for HIV-positive mothers since many HIV-infected Zambian women choose replacement feeding and early cessation of breastfeeding of infants to minimize the risk of transmission of the virus. This study builds upon preliminary baseline research which determined that HIV-positive mothers would potentially benefit from an intervention that encourages HIV-positive mothers to treat their water at the household level.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Known HIV-status based on clinical testing
• Have a child between 6-12 months at the initiation of the study
• Within the catchment area of Kasisi or Ngwerere health clinics, Chongwe district, Lusaka

Exclusion criteria

• Lived in the catchment area less than one year or planning to move

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

LifeStraw Family

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: LifeStraw Family