Stimulating Private Sector Malaria Control (Outgrowers)

PATH

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malaria

Treatments: Device: Insecticide-treated net (BASF Incerceptor)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01397851

PATH Outgrowers

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 81,597 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Farmers who contracted with the participating cotton outgrowing company in the 2010-2011 season

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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81,597 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment: Insecticide-treated net

Experimental group

Description:

Smallholder farmers in the treatment group are informed that they won a raffle, and receive a free insecticide-treated net

Treatment:

Device: Insecticide-treated net (BASF Incerceptor)

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Smallholder farmers in the control group are informed that they had a chance to win an insecticide-treated mosquito net in a raffle, but did not end up winning