Active clinical trials for "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome"

Despite risk reduction counseling, some individuals in HIV vaccine trials or vaccine preparedness studies may engage in risk behavior that results in HIV infection. The purpose of the HVTN 403 study is to find out more about how persons respond to HIV infection if they have received an experimental HIV-1 vaccine before they became HIV infected. Some people in HVTN 403 received an experimental HIV vaccine as a participant in a clinical trial before getting infected with HIV. Other people in this study were in a vaccine preparedness study when they got infected with HIV. None of these individuals became infected with HIV as result of their participation in an HIV vaccine or vaccine preparedness study. HVTN 403 will compare immune responses between those who previously received an experimental HIV vaccine and those who did not. Information learned from this study may be important in guiding future developments of new HIV vaccines and other treatments for HIV and AIDS.

The purpose of this study is to find out if it is possible to conduct a group counseling program for women at risk for HIV infection. Women have been the fastest-growing group with new AIDS diagnoses. The need for ways to reduce HIV infection in women is urgent. It is important to reduce the risk of HIV infection through sexual contact, but it is also important to address drug use. Group counseling may be an effective method.

Dolutegravir (DTG) is recommended for both treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced, HIV infected adults and paediatric subjects aged 12 years and older and weighing at least 40 kg. One case of suspected DTG hypersensitivity (HSR) reaction from among over 1500 subjects exposed to the drug at the time of submission in 4Q2012, has been identified; this subject experienced a diffuse maculopapular rash with fever and elevated liver enzymes. Isolated rash was uncommon in the DTG programme with less than 1% of clinical trial subjects experiencing treatment related rash. The pharmacovigilance strategy for DTG and DTG-containing products is to implement a post-marketing risk management program to further quantify the risk of HSR and compare it to that of other integrase inhibitors, and to possibly determine associated risk factors. In addition, the post-authorization safety study will monitor and compare hepatotoxicity and severe skin rash following initiation of DTG or other integrase inhibitor (raltegravir (RAL) or elvitegravir (EGV) based antiretroviral regimens (ARV). Further to be able to distinguish the above symptoms and reactions caused by DTG or the other integrase inhibitor regimen from that of abacavir (ABC), known to cause hypersensitivity reaction, the integrase inhibitor groups will be compared in combinations with and without ABC. This five year-long safety study will be conducted through collaboration with EuroSIDA, a well established prospective observational cohort study of more than 18,200 subjects followed in 107 hospitals in 31 European countries, plus Israel and Argentina. This is a five year-long non-interventional prospective cohort study nested within the EuroSIDA study. The study population will include HIV positive subjects over the age of 16 years from EuroSIDA clinical sites, who are new users of DTG or other integrase inhibitors with and without ABC. Following initiation of DTG with ABC based antiretroviral regimen or DTG without ABC or regimens containing other integrase inhibitors (RAL, EGV) with or without ABC or any other DTG based ARV regimen as monotherapy or two-drug regimens, the study will aim to a) Monitor and compare hypersensitivity reaction, b) Monitor and compare hepatotoxicity, and c) Monitor and compare severe skin rash among all subjects discontinuing DTG or other integrase inhibitor regimens for any reason.

Project Rise is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an innovative, culturally congruent treatment education (TE) intervention for African Americans with HIV that targets cultural and social issues contributing to health disparities.

Evidence suggests women who inject drugs (WWID) are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV. If HIV incidence continues unchecked, 1 in 23 WWID in the United States will acquire HIV. This observational study will evaluate a novel approach for the delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care: pairing PrEP with community-based syringe exchange program (SEP) services. The rationale is that (1) SEPs may currently provide prescription medications and long-term monitoring for other conditions such as buprenorphine for opioid dependence, so providing PrEP care is a natural extension of what is already being done successfully; (2) SEPs are a viable access point for many HIV-uninfected WWID who would be considered eligible for PrEP under current clinical guidelines; and (3) PrEP interventions, delivered in settings already utilized and trusted by WWID, will increase uptake, adherence and retention in PrEP. We will enroll a cohort of 125 women and follow-them over six months. At their first study visit, they will educated about and offered a prescription for PrEP. Those who indicate an interest in PrEP will be able to return to the SEP one week later to obtain a paper PrEP prescription or medication. All participants will be followed for six months using qualitative interviews and surveys to understand facilitators and barriers to PrEP uptake and engagement over time. In addition, we will collect urine and test it to detect the level of drug concentration among women who initiate PrEP. This will allow us to know whether their level of adherence translated to prevention effective drug levels.

Studies to assess the effectiveness of interventions to prevent HIV infection depend upon robust estimates of Baseline HIV incidence rates. The changing landscape of high-risk populations, as well as the evolution of biomedical pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) interventions, requires a contemporary evaluation of HIV incidence as well as demographic, behavioral and other subject factors which may impact HIV incidence. This is a prospective cohort study to measure HIV-1 seroincidence in a study population of HIV-1 uninfected Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) who are at high-risk of HIV infection. Approximately 550 subjects who are male sex at birth and have sex with men shall enter the study, which will allow for a 10% drop out rate to maintain 500 subjects at the conclusion of the cohort. This is a single arm cohort study to determine HIV-1 seroincidence rates in high risk MSM and TGW when combined with a comprehensive prevention package including HIV and safe sex counseling, provision of condoms and water-based lubricant, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and referral for treatment. It will be determined what proportion of high-risk MSM and TGW who are given a comprehensive HIV-1 prevention package will acquire HIV-1 infection.

Aim 1: Adapt Ottawa Decision Support Framework for the HIV PrEP decisional needs of African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Canadian patients Aim 2. Pilot Test The Adapted Decision-Support Intervention Using a Two-Arm Randomized Controlled Design

HIV virus is an etiologic agent of ( AIDS ) immunodeficiency syndrome . It is known that the estimated rate of transfer from mother to baby is 25% to 45%, pregnancy rate is 5-10%, pregnancy rate is 15-20% and in lactation period is 5-10%. Risk factors; maternal viral load, breastfeeding, vaginal birth, and prematurity. Although there is a high rate of false positivity in prenatal screening in our country, one of the factors affecting this is the number of pregnancies.

The purpose of this study is to conduct formative research to inform the design and implementation of combination prevention interventions, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for female sex workers (FSW), as well as to inform recruitment and retention strategies for female sex workers and their male clients in Kenya.

Next generation real-time monitoring for PrEP adherence in young Kenyan women