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Adjunctive Mycobacterium w immunotherapy for tuberculosis (title stage)
Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing tuberculosis (protocol stage)
Albendazole for lymphatic filariasis
Amodiaquine for treating malaria
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Amodiaquine plus artesunate for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)
Anthelmintics for people with neurocysticercosis (protocol stage)
withdrawn
Anti-leishmanial drugs for treating visceral leishmaniasis (protocol stage)
Antiamoebic drugs for treating amoebic colitis (protocol stage)
Antibiotic therapy for Shigella dysentery (protocol stage)
Antibiotic treatment for travellers' diarrhoea
Antibiotics for treating human brucellosis (protocol stage)
Antibiotics for treating nontyphoidal Salmonella diarrhoea (title stage)
Antibiotics for treating salmonella gut infections
Antibiotics for treating scrub typhus
withdrawn
Antimotility drugs for managing acute diarrhoea in children (protocol stage)
Antipyretic measures for treating fever in malaria
Artemether-lumefantrine (four-dose regimen) for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria
Artemether-lumefantrine (six-dose regimen) for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria
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Artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria
Artemisinin derivatives for treating severe malaria
Artemisinin derivatives for treating uncomplicated malaria
Artesunate plus mefloquine versus mefloquine for treating uncomplicated malaria
Artesunate versus quinine for treating severe malaria
Atovaquone-proguanil for treating uncomplicated malaria
Azithromycin for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)
Azithromycin for treating uncomplicated typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever) (protocol stage)
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for preventing tuberculosis (protocol stage)
Blood transfusion for treating malarial anaemia
Chemoprophylaxis and intermittent treatment for preventing malaria in children
Chemotherapy of second-stage Human African trypanosomiasis (protocol stage)
Chloroquine or amodiaquine combined with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for treating uncomplicated malaria
Chlorproguanil-dapsone for treating uncomplicated malaria
Clindamycin plus quinine for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)
Community animal health services for improving household wealth and health status of low income farmers
Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis
Corticosteroids for treating dengue shock syndrome
Corticosteroids for tuberculous pleurisy
Deworming drugs for treating soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on growth and school performance
Diethylcarbamazine (DEC)-medicated salt for community-based control of lymphatic filariasis
Diethylcarbamazine regimens for controlling lymphatic filariasis (title stage)
Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis
Drugs and other methods for managing fever in children (protocol stage)
Drugs for preventing malaria in pregnant women
Drugs for preventing malaria in travellers (protocol stage)
Drugs for preventing tuberculosis in people at risk of multiple-drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
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Drugs for treating giardiasis
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Drugs for treating neurocysticercosis (tapeworm infection of the brain)
Drugs for treating paracoccidioidomycosis
Drugs for treating strongyloides infection (title stage)
Drugs for treating uncomplicated malaria in pregnant women
Updated
Drugs for treating urinary schistosomiasis
New
Early versus delayed refeeding for children with acute diarrhoea (protocol stage)
Education and counselling for promoting adherence to the treatment of active tuberculosis (protocol stage)
Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection
Fluoroquinolones for treating tuberculosis
Fluoroquinolones for treating typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever)
Fully intermittent dosing with drugs for treating tuberculosis in adults
Fully intermittent therapy versus daily therapy for treating newly diagnosed cases of tuberculosis in children (title stage)
Glucose polymer ORS (protocol stage)
Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea
High first dose quinine regimen for treating severe malaria
Ibuprofen for treating fever in children (title stage)
Incentives for improving adherence to tuberculosis treatment (title stage)
Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria (protocol stage)
Insecticide-treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria
Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy
Intermittent preventive treatment regimens for malaria in HIV-positive pregnant women (protocol stage)
Interventions for preventing reactions to snake antivenom
Interventions for preventing transmission of tuberculosis to health care workers (title stage)
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Interventions for promoting adherence to tuberculosis management
withdrawn
Interventions for treating headlice
Interventions for treating melioidosis
Interventions for treating scabies
Interventions for treating schistosomiasis mansoni
Interventions for treating trichomoniasis in women
Interventions for treating tuberculous pericarditis
Interventions to improve excreta disposal for preventing diarrhoea (protocol stage)
Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea
Intramuscular arteether for treating severe malaria
Intrarectal quinine for treating Plasmodium falciparum malaria
Iron-chelating agents for treating malaria
Isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in non-HIV infected persons
Isoniazid treatment regimens versus non-isoniazid drugs and drug combinations with isoniazid for preventing active tuberculosis in HIV-negative persons (title stage)
Lactose avoidance for acute diarrhoea in children less than five years (protocol stage)
Low level laser therapy for treating tuberculosis
Malaria chemoprophylaxis in sickle cell disease
Mannitol and other osmotic diuretics as adjuncts for treating cerebral malaria
Medical and surgical therapy for the complications of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination (title stage)
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Mefloquine for preventing malaria in non-immune adult travellers
Monthly versus 2 dose intermittent preventive therapy for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy in Africa (title stage)
Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy for treating tuberculosis
Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis (protocol stage)
Oral versus intravenous rehydration for treating dehydration due to gastroenteritis in children
New
Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children
Paracetamol for treating fever in children
Physical methods for treating fever in children
Plant remedies for treating uncomplicated malaria (title stage)
Primaquine for preventing relapses in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria
Probiotics for treating infectious diarrhoea
Probiotics for treating persistent diarrhoea in children (title stage)
Pyronaridine for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)
Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating cholera
Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating dehydration caused by acute diarrhoea in children
Regimens of less than six months for treating tuberculosis
Reminder systems and late patient tracers in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis (protocol stage)
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Rice-based oral rehydration solution for treating diarrhoea
Rifabutin for treating pulmonary tuberculosis
Rotavirus vaccine for preventing diarrhoea
Routine anticonvulsants for treating cerebral malaria
Routine iron supplementation for preventing or treating iron-deficiency anaemia in children in malaria-endemic areas (protocol stage)
Routine surgery in addition to chemotherapy for treating spinal tuberculosis
Short term (6 months) versus long term (9-12 months) chemotherapy for tuberculous meningitis (title stage)
Single dose ivermectin for treating lymphatic filariasis (title stage)
Steroids for treating cerebral malaria
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus mefloquine versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine alone for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria (protocol stage)
Tafenoquine for preventing malaria (protocol stage)
Unit-dose packaged drugs for treating malaria
Vaccines for preventing anthrax (protocol stage)
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Vaccines for preventing anthrax
Vaccines for preventing cholera
Vaccines for preventing dengue infection (protocol stage)
Vaccines for preventing enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) (title stage)
Vaccines for preventing Japanese encephalitis
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Vaccines for preventing malaria
Vaccines for preventing malaria (blood-stage)
Vaccines for preventing malaria (pre-erythrocytic)
Vaccines for preventing malaria (SPf66)
Vaccines for preventing plague
Vaccines for preventing smallpox
Vaccines for preventing tick-borne encephalitis
Vaccines for preventing typhoid fever
Zinc supplementation for preventing and treating malaria in children living in malaria-endemic areas (title stage)