Active clinical trials for "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome"

This study will develop and pilot test a couples-based intervention to help adolescent girls and young women living with HIV (WLHIV (15-24 years) living in Uganda access HIV care and improve the outcomes of their HIV treatment by targeting male partner alcohol use to reduce IPV risk.

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a theory-driven peer intervention for pregnant and postpartum women living HIV. The peer intervention is designed to increase self-efficacy, social support, self-regulatory behaviors, and outcome expectancy in order to improve retention in care and viral suppression postpartum. The intervention will consist of face-to-face prenatal educational sessions, starting in early third trimester, and postpartum sessions scheduled up to three months postpartum.

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of arsenic trioxide combined with cART in eliminating latent HIV-1 reservoir, providing potential strategies for AIDS functional cure.

This phase II clinical trial studies the side effects of pomalidomide and how well it works in treating patients with Kaposi sarcoma and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Biological therapies, such as pomalidomide, may stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop tumor cells from growing and it may also block the growth of new blood vessels necessary for tumor growth.

The overall aim of this program of research is to test a newly developed intervention, Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy (ABBT), to improve HIV patients' commitment to medical care. The purpose of the proposed project is to establish the efficacy of ABBT and examine its mechanisms of action. To achieve the specific aims, the investigators will conduct a randomized clinical trial (n = 270), with two treatment arms: ABBT vs. an attention-matched HIV education control condition.

The advent of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) substantially improved life expectancy but has also led to the critical need to address modifiable risk factors associated with cancer and cardiovascular disease, such as tobacco smoking. HIV-infected smokers lose more life-years due to tobacco use than they do to their HIV infection. There have been relatively few studies of tobacco use treatments for PLWHA and systematic reviews show that there are insufficient data to conclude that tobacco dependence interventions that are efficacious in the general population are efficacious for PLWHA. Further, many studies in this area have lacked randomization and a control group, infrequently used an intent-to-treat (ITT) approach and biological verification of tobacco abstinence, and lacked post-treatment follow-up.10 What investigators do know thus far is that behavioral interventions and the nicotine patch yield moderate effects on cessation; and 2 recent placebo-controlled trials - one in France and one by this lab - found that varenicline is safe and effective for treating tobacco use among PLWHA, but yield quit rates that are substantially lower than those reported in the general population. Thus, there is a critical need to rigorously test novel ways to optimize tobacco cessation treatment for smokers with HIV.

Study CP-MGD020-01 is a phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation, and multi-dose expansion study of MGD020 as a single agent or in combination with MGD014 in persons with HIV-1 (PWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART). The study is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), immunogenicity, and pharmacodynamics (PD) of the study drugs. The study consists of 3 parts (Part 1A, Part 1B, and Part 2). The participant's standard of care ART regimen is continued throughout the study period. MGD020 is a bispecific DART® molecule that binds CD3 and gp41 subunit of HIV-1 envelope. MGD014 is a bispecific DART® molecule that binds CD3 and gp120 subunit of HIV-1 envelope. These DART molecules redirect CD3+ T lymphocytes to kill HIV-1-infected CD4+ T cells. Part 1A evaluates groups of participants given a single dose of MGD020. A 2-week safety period is observed prior to escalation to the next dose level. Dose escalation continues until either the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or maximum administered dose (MAD) is determined. Part 1B begins after the end of Part 1A. Part 1B evaluates groups of participants given a single dose of the MGD020 MTD or MAD from Part 1A and a fixed dose of of MGD014. The first group will be treated with a single dose of MGD020, at a dose determined to be one dose lower than the single-agent MTD/MAD from Part 1A, and a single 300 mcg/kg dose of MGD014. Dose escalation proceeds until either the MTD or MAD is determined. Part 2 begins Part 1B. Part 2 is a multi-dose expansion group. Each participant will receive the MTD or MAD of MGD020 and MGD014 from Part 1B, administered every 2 weeks (Q2W) for 3 combination doses over 4 weeks. Up to 6 participants may be enrolled in Part 2.

This study is a prospective, open-label, single-site, first-in-human study of a long-acting, injectable combination antiretroviral therapy platform, with a pharmacologically-guided adaptive design for dose escalation, de-escalation, and study duration. The study is designed to learn whether the formulation can be used as a platform for other drugs for treatment of HIV. The formulation is a drug combination nanoparticle (DCNP). The study will be conducted by UW Positive Research. The sample size for this study is 12-16. The study population consists of healthy adults without HIV. The study duration is 57 days per participant at the start of the study.

The goal of this clinical study is to learn more about the safety and dosing of study drugs, cobicistat-boosted Atazanavir (ATV/co), cobicistat-boosted darunavir (DRV/co) and emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (F/TAF), in children (age ≥ 4 weeks to < 18 years) with HIV.

242 patients (121 patients in each of the two treatment arms) will be included with a confirmed diagnosis of HIV-1 infection and with a stable antiretroviral treatment during more than 48 weeks with dual therapy (DTG + 3TC)