Active clinical trials for "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome"

This is an early phase research study looking at whether an experimental gene transfer, LVsh5/C46 (also known as Cal-1), is safe and if it can protect the immune system from the effects of HIV without the use of antiretroviral drugs. Cal-1 is an experimental gene transfer agent designed to inhibit HIV infection through 2 active parts: Removing a protein named CCR5 from bone marrow and white blood cells Producing a protein named C46 on bone marrow and white blood cells

In the era of HIV treatment as prevention (TasP), efforts are needed to identify evidence-based combination prevention approaches that achieve greater decreases HIV viral load among populations that are more likely to engage in HIV transmission risk behavior. Because methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men (MSM) are at greater risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV, interventions targeting stimulant use in this population of high-risk men could boost the effectiveness of TasP. At present, only conditional cash transfer approaches such as contingency management (CM) have demonstrated short- term efficacy in reducing stimulant use among substance-using MSM who are not actively seeking formal treatment. The proposed RCT will examine the efficacy of a positive affect intervention that is designed to optimize the effectiveness of CM to achieve long-term reductions in stimulant use and HIV viral load in this population. the team will examine the efficacy of this integrative intervention in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 110 HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using MSM. After enrolling in CM, participants will be randomized to receive either: 1) the positive affect intervention; or 2) a attention-matched control condition. Follow-up data will be collected at 3, 6, 12, and 15 months post-randomization. This RCT will provide an opportunity to examine the efficacy of an integrative intervention designed to promote long-term reductions in HIV viral load as the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes that will be examined include: increases positive affect, reductions in stimulant use, improvements in T-helper (CD4+) count, unsuppressed viral load, and decreases HIV transmission risk behavior. Identifying an efficacious intervention approach to decrease HIV viral load among methamphetamine-using MSM would substantially support the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy to reduce HIV incidence and mitigate HIV-related health disparities.

The two original objectives were to determine in HIV-infected children initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART): Whether clinically driven monitoring (CDM) will have a similar outcome in terms of disease progression or death as routine laboratory and clinical monitoring (LCM) for toxicity (haematology/biochemistry) and efficacy (CD4)? Whether induction with four drugs from two ART classes followed by maintenance with three drugs after 36 weeks be more effective than a continuous non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI)-based triple drug regimen in terms of CD4 and clinical outcome? Two secondary objectives were to determine Whether changing from twice daily lamivudine+abacavir to once daily lamivudine+abacavir after 48 weeks on ART will have a similar outcome in terms of virological suppression and will result in improvements in adherence to ART? Whether stopping daily cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in children over 3 years of age who have been on ART for at least 96 weeks has a similar outcome in terms of hospitalisation or death as continuing daily cotrimoxazole?

In this study, the dolutegravir/abacavir/lamivudine (DTG/ABC/3TC) fixed dose combination (FDC) tablet is being made available to women who become pregnant while participating in study ING117172. Continuation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is key to both mother and the unborn fetus in order to maintain virologic suppression in the mother (thereby decreasing the risk for maternal disease progression), but also to reduce the risk of maternal-fetal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) to her unborn child. This study also offers the first opportunity to investigate the impact of pregnancy on DTG pharmacokinetics (PK). This is an open-label, single arm interventional study. The number of women that will be enrolled into this study cannot be established a priori, as unintended pregnancies cannot be determined in advance. The maximum number of women would include all of those women randomized to DTG/ABC/3TC FDC (approximately 237), though unintended pregnancies in all of these women would not be anticipated.

This study is designed to estimate the two-way drug interaction between DCV and DTG as a drug interaction between DTG and DCV is expected to be low and this study is to be performed as confirmation. This will be a single-center, open-label, three-period, crossover study in healthy adult subjects. This study to describe and compare steady-state plasma DTG and DCV pharmacokinetics following administration of DTG 50 mg q24h with and without DCV 60 mg q24h and following administration of DCV 60 mg q24h with and without DTG 50 mg q24h also the safety and tolerability was assessed after a repeat dose DTG 50 mg q24h with or without DCV 60 mg q24h and after a repeat dose DCV 60 mg q24h with and without DTG 50 mg q24h

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the first web-based cessation program developed expressly for people living with HIV who smoke tobacco. Main study goals are (1) to evaluate the website's feasibility (i.e., recruitment, adherence, retention, and satisfaction) and (2) to complete a prospective, randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy of the online program to standard care with a primary outcome of 3 month point-prevalence abstinence.

The primary purpose of this study is to study the safety and tolerability of a HIV drug and to evaluate a decrease of HIV-1 virus level in blood after treatments in HIV-1 infected patients

A randomised controlled trial to investigate three methods to reduce early mortality in adults, adolescents and children aged 5 years or older starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) with severe immuno-deficiency. The three methods are: (i) increasing the potency of ART with a 12 week induction period using 4 antiretroviral drugs from 3 classes (ii) augmented prophylaxis against opportunistic/bacterial infections and helminths for 12 weeks (iii) macronutrient intervention using ready-to-use supplementary food for 12 weeks.

In the proposed R34 grant, the investigators will develop and test a strategy of immediate fast-track care. The study population will include adult patients with early HIV infection. Participants will be randomized to immediate fast-track or standard (deferred fast-track) care. All participants will receive same-day HIV testing and ART initiation prior to study enrollment. The intervention group will receive immediate fast-track care, which is conditional upon timely visits, and after 24 weeks in care, an undetectable viral load (HIV-1 RNA <200 copies/ml). The standard group will be eligible to start fast-track care at 24 weeks, if they are on time for that visit and have an undetectable viral load. Participants in either group who are >3 days late for any fast-track visit will lose fast-track care for that visit; those in either group with detectable viremia on their 24-week viral load test will be evaluated by a physician, with follow-up visits every 4 weeks until they have an undetectable viral load. Participants will be followed for 48 weeks. With the proposed pilot study, the investigators aim to conduct the formative work that is necessary to successfully implement a future clinical trial with the same primary outcome. The investigators hypothesize that immediate fast-track care will result in higher retention with viral suppression.

This study aims to compare the bioequivalence of two experimental fixed dose combination (FDC) tablets versus single entity products of dolutegravir (DTG) and lamivudine (3TC) in healthy adult subjects. The study will be carried out in two parts. Part 1 of the study will be open label, up to 3 periods design with a wash out period of at least 7 days between treatment periods. Subjects will be randomized to receive either single entities or formulation 1 FDC of DTG and 3TC in a crossover manner in first 2 periods. The first 16 subjects who complete the first two treatment periods and consent to continue will receive a single dose of FDC formulation 1 tablet administered with a high fat meal for a third treatment period. In Part 2 of the study, subjects will be randomized to receive either single entities or formulation 2 FDC of DTG and 3TC in a crossover manner in first 2 periods. Similarly the first 16 subjects will then receive FDC formulation 2 tablets with high fat meal in treatment period 3. Subjects will have a follow-up visit within 7-14 days after the last dose of study drug. Approximately 76 healthy subjects will be included in Part 1 of the study and if Part 2 of the study is conducted, another 76 healthy subjects will be included. The total duration will be approximately 11 weeks.