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Clinical trialNCT01241318CompletedPhase 2/PHASE3Interventional

Zambia Chlorhexidine Application Trial

SponsorBoston UniversityEnrollment77,535Sepsis
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Summary

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This will be a cluster-randomized controlled trial to assess whether washing the umbilical cord with a disinfectant (4% chlorhexidine) helps to reduce neonatal deaths in Zambia when compared to the current standard of care, dry cord care.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Zambia
  • Facilities Throughout Southern Province

    Choma, Southern Province, Zambia

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Chlorhexidine →
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
28 Feb 2011
Primary completion
30 Sept 2013
Completion
30 Sept 2013
Last update posted
31 Aug 2020
Registered enrollment
77,535
Registry id
NCT01241318
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.