Active clinical trials for "HIV Infections"

The success of combination HIV prevention efforts, including HIV treatment as prevention, hinges on universal, routine HIV testing with effective treatment after HIV diagnosis. The proposed study will evaluate the comparative effectiveness and sustainability of innovative incentive strategies, informed directly by behavioral economics and decision psychology, to promote HIV testing among men and HIV treatment among HIV-infected adults in rural Uganda.

This study evaluates whether the integration of an Economic Strengthening program with an HIV-prevention education program produce synergistic effects on economic and health outcomes for South African youth ages 14-17 years old.

Despite overall declines in HIV incidence and mortality since ART scale-up in low and middle income countries, both have risen among youth. In addition, HIV-infected youth achieve inferior treatment outcomes compared to their adult counterparts in both high- and low-income countries, and these poorer outcomes are generally attributed to suboptimal adherence. Thus, there is a critical need for the development of adherence and risk reduction interventions for the growing cohort of these youth, and the proposed cognitive behavioral N'ap Grandi is one such intervention.

In the era of test-and-treat, with anticipated high numbers of patients who will have unsuppressed viral load (VL) due to poor adherence, simple, short and standardized adherence interventions with documented efficacy will be needed. Achieving re-suppression in patients with unsuppressed VL is beneficial for the health of the individual, important to reduce the risk of transmission and has a direct cost implication because patients with sustained unsuppressed VL will ultimately be switched to more expensive 2nd-line regimens. Information is still largely lacking on how to best address adherence problems among patients with unsuppressed VL. VL monitoring is recognized as a useful tool to reinforce adherence in patients with unsuppressed VL. The Lesotho Guidelines recommend redoing a VL 8-12 weeks after the first enhanced adherence counselling. To date no study has been published clearly demonstrating higher re-suppression rates after enhanced adherence counselling for patients with unsuppressed VL. This project aims to test an adherence intervention for HIV-positive individuals on first-line ART who have an unsuppressed viral load. A step wedged study will be used to compare the effectiveness of a short, standardized adherence counselling followed by an SMS reminder to the standard of care (≥ 2 unstructured adherence counselling sessions) in terms of viral re-suppression rates and switches to 2nd line ART.

This study is a Phase 1, open label, non-randomized, single dose study to determine pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of doultegravir (DTG) following 50 mg single oral administration in healthy Japanese subjects. A total of 10 healthy Japanese subjects will be enrolled in this study to receive a 50 mg single dose of DTG. Subjects will have a screening visit within 30 days prior to the administration of study drug, a treatment visit, and a follow-up visit 7-14 days after the administration of study drug.

Background: With the improvement of the prognosis for HIV-infected infants, thanks to the availability of antiretroviral therapies, young adults infected with HIV since birth are becoming an emerging group among the HIV-infected population. Morbidity, mortality and immunovirological evolution in these young adults need to be studied in a large population and compared to patients infected with HIV later in adulthood or to the general population in terms of mortality. Moreover, the study of accelerated or premature ageing, linked to HIV and/or antiretroviral therapy, is particularly interesting in this population. Objectives: To study the transition to adulthood and the further evolution of HIV-1 or -2 perinatally infected young adults: 1) To study the teenager to adult transition in terms of clinical and immunovirological status, schooling and professional integration, sexuality and reproductive life, transition from paediatrics to adult departments; 2) To study prognosis, morbidity and mortality according to age, infection stage at the time of antiretroviral initiation and therapeutic history; 3) To study the incidence and expression of adverse events and the potential link to antiretroviral therapies; 4) To study the markers of a potential premature ageing, from the metabolic, cardiovascular and immunological points of view.

Dolutegravir (DTG) is an HIV-1 integrase inhibitor approved in the United States, Canada, Australia and EU. A dispersible tablet has been developed for pediatric use as an alternative to the granule formulation, already in development, and the approved film-coated tablet. This is a single-center, randomized, open-label, 5-way crossover study in healthy adult subjects. The study will evaluate the relative bioavailability of five dosing regimens: 20 mg DTG pediatric granules (Treatment A) and of DTG 20 mg dispersible tablets (DTG 20 mg DT) after dispersed in: low mineral content(LMC) water (Treatment B); dispersed in CONTREX™ mineral water (Treatment C); dispersed in low mineral content water and consumed after standing for 30 minutes (Treatment D) and dispersed in CONTREX mineral water and consumed after standing for 30 minutes (Treatment E). Safety evaluations and serial PK samples will be collected during each treatment period. A follow-up visit will occur 7-14 days after the last dose of study drug. CONTREX is a trademark of Nestlé Waters Corporation.

The overall goal of this project is to implement and test the efficacy of an enhanced comprehensive multidisciplinary early palliative care (EPC) package that includes four motivational interviewing sessions (MI) for persons diagnosed with AIDS. We posit that the innovative EPC will improve quality of life, clinical and psychosocial outcomes and advance care planning in a cost effective manner and could promote engagement and retention in HIV care. If successful, it could serve as a model of early palliative care for persons with AIDS in the US.

This study will be a phase I, open label, three period, fixed sequence crossover study to evaluate the effect of Carbamazepine (CBZ) on the steady-state pharmacokinetics of Dolutegravir (DTG) and on the safety and tolerability of DTG. Subjects will have a screening visit within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug, three treatment periods, and a follow-up visit 7-14 days after the last dose of study drug. There is no washout between treatment periods.

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety, pharmacology and bioactivity of disulfiram in antiretroviral treated HIV-infected adults. The investigators primary hypothesis is that 3 days of disulfiram will result in an increase in HIV transcription in CD4+ T-cells in patients on suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART).