Active clinical trials for "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome"

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the pharmacokinetic properties (what the body does to maraviroc) and to determine a suitable dosing schedule of maraviroc in HIV-1 infected children and adolescents. This study will also determine whether maraviroc is safe to use in children and adolescents.

This study will recruit 520 treatment-naive and 150 treatment-experienced patients to take the first line or second line of antiviral therapy. This study aims to set up a well-trained clinical and laboratory team in China, to explore the effects and side-effects of the first-line and the second line of ARV treatment in Chinese HIV/AIDS adult patients, to investigate the side-effects of ARV drugs, such as hepatotoxicity, lipoatrophy, cardiovascular influence, to explore the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) of Chinese generic ARV regiments and effective drug concentrations and to explore primary and secondary drug resistance in China and the immune reconstitution characters of long term ARV in Chinese adult AIDS patients. This study might provide more practical and optimizing prove for the treatment guideline for resource limited areas.

Tulane University Health Sciences Center/Louisiana Community AIDS Research Center Program, New Orleans, LA is seeking patients for an HIV study. The purpose of the study is to test the safety and effectiveness of an experimental ultra-violet light device designed to reduce virus in your blood.

Distal sensory peripheral neuropathy (DSP) is a chronic, debilitating painful condition affecting quality of life in persons living with HIV. Treatments prescribed to manage DSP pain, such as nonnarcotic and narcotic analgesics, antidepressants and anticonvulsants, are largely ineffective. In HIV there are no FDA-approved drugs for this indication. This study assesses in a randomized controlled clinical trial, the efficacy of novel non-pharmacologic pain management approaches to reduce HIV-related DSP pain and improve quality of life.

Randomized controlled parallel open-label study in people living with HIV and at least 6 month of treatment with dolutegravir/abacavir/lamivudine prior to inclusion. Participants (n=95) are randomized to continue 3 drug-regimen dolutegravir/abacavir/lamivudine (control) or switch to two-drug regimen with dolutegravir/lamivudine (intervention). Follow-up is 48 weeks. Data is collected at baseline and week 48. Primary outcome is changes in weight from baseline of more than 2 kg. Secondary outcomes are changes in cardiac risk, composition and calcification of the heart tissue, and changes in body composition and metabolism, inflammation and coagulation. A MRI substudy is applied to focus on the cardiac adverse effects of abacavir.

This is a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled dose-escalation clinical trial to evaluate the safety and the immunogenicity of Adenoviral vector 5 HIV-1 vaccines in subjects receiving stable highly active antiretroviral therapy(HAART) .

The primary objective is to compare & evaluate between the treatment groups the changes in decline/reduction of HIV viral load changes in the Remune + Amplivax group vs the Amplivax placebo groups. Additional objectives include changes in WBC White Blood Cell counts & CD4+ & CD8+ T cell counts along with increased HIV immunity.

This study is a Phase 2b, multi-center, extension study designed to evaluate the long-term efficacy, safety, and tolerability of PRO 140 monotherapy for the maintenance of viral suppression in patients who were stable on combination antiretroviral therapy and completed 12 weeks of treatment under PRO140_CD01 Treatment Substitution Study without experiencing virologic failure. Consenting patients will continue to receive PRO 140 monotherapy for 160 additional weeks. Total treatment duration with PRO 140 will be up to 161 weeks with one week overlap of existing retroviral regimen and PRO 140 at the end of the treatment extension phase in subjects who do not experience virologic failure.

Chinese prescriptions can inhibit viral replication according to the course of viral replication, and the effects is similar to the effect of HAART, and even better than the anti-viral and immune reconstitution of HAART due to its effect on improve immune system function. Over the past decades, many researchers have screened the effective Chinese medicines to treat AIDS.

Background Low concentrations of protease inhibitors (PIs) or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) are associated with an increased risk of virological failure. Likewise, excessive antiretroviral drug concentrations increase the risk of toxicity. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) may identify and correct excessively high or low PI and/or NNRTI concentrations, and thus minimize toxicity and risk of treatment failure. Treatment guidelines only recommend using TDM to help optimize ARV therapy in selected patients, and there are no clear recommendations to guide the clinician who decides to adjust drug doses. Prospective studies have demonstrated the relationship between EFV plasma concentration and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Moreover, EFV is metabolized mainly by cytochrome P450 2B6 and its concentration was reported to be associated with the CYP2B6 516GrT genetic polymorphism. For drugs such as EFV or LPV/r, lower doses than the ones validated for standard clinical use have demonstrated efficacy in dose-ranging studies. The investigators will use a standardised algorithm to reduce doses in patients with plasma EFV or LPV/r concentration above percentile 75. This algorithm is based on a Bayesian approach from the pharmacology unit in Lausanne. The investigators hypothesize that a dosage individualisation is feasible and safe. 2.2 Study Aims The investigators aim at testing a simplified algorithm for dose reduction in patients with documented virological efficacy, treated by a stable LPV/r or EFV based regimen with elevated plasma concentration of these drugs. Study Design Prospective open label study in which all eligible patients screened with a plasma drug concentration of either EFV or LPV/r above percentile 75 will be included. After confirmation of the results at baseline, patients will be offered to decrease drug dosage by a third or a half according to a standardised algorithm. All patients will undergo HIVRNA, biochemistry and validated questionnaires after 3 and 6 months to assess the safety and the benefit of this strategy.