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Trial design: RCT open‐label, phase 2 + 3
Type of publication: trial registry
Setting: hospital
Recruitment dates: not yet recruiting
Country: Uganda
Language: English
Number of centres: NR
Inclusion criteria: provision of signed and dated informed consent form, willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability over the study duration, patients aged above 18 years to 64 years
Exclusion criteria: participants with known hypersensitivity to ivermectin, clinical diagnosis of severe renal and hepatic impairment, pregnancy or breastfeeding, co‐treatment with either strong cytochrome p‐450 inducers including: rifampicin, carbamazepine and barbiturates or inhibitors: isoniazid, clofazimine that might potentially affect ivermectin disposition and clinical outcomes, comorbidities including asthma, loa loa as assessed by travel history to Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Nigeria and Sudan in the last 4 years, persons clinically diagnosed with and receiving treatment for any diathesis and PUD, active participation in another clinical trial, PCR positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) from any of the MOH COVID‐19 accredited testing laboratories, moderately ill COVID‐19 patients score 3 (hospitalised with no oxygen therapy) to 4 (hospitalised with oxygen by mask or nasal prongs) according to the WHO ordinal scale for clinical improvement which translates to moderate to severe COVID‐19 patients according to the Ministry of Health Uganda COVID‐19 disease category
Trial registration number: NCT04768179
Date of trial registration: 24 February 2021
Prospective completion date: 30 September 2021
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