Active clinical trials for "HIV Infections"

Efficacy of etravirin + raltegravir dual therapy was showed in the ANRS 153 ETRAL protocol, in HIV-1 seropositive patients. The use of these two drugs avoids the use of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors, with a real benefit in older patients, who increasingly present contraindications to these drugs' families. The disadvantage of this strategy is twice daily (BID). Pharmacological data suggest that etravirine once a day and raltegravir once a day may provide the same virological efficacy. The objective of our study is to evaluate the ability of ETRAL QD (etravirine 400 mg x1/day + raltegravir 800 mg x1/day) to maintain virologic success at week 48 (W48), after switch, in HIV-patients under ETRAL BID (etravirine 200 mg x2/day + raltegravir 400 mg x2/day). Virological success is defined as absence of virological failure, and virological failure is defined as two consecutive plasma viral loads >50 cp/ml over 2-4 weeks, or one plasma viral load >400 cp/ml. This study will be a multicentric data collection. Data will be collected at W0 (patient characteristics, plasma viral load) and then at W4, W12, W24 and W48 (plasma viral load). If stopping strategy, the reason for stopping will be documented. 125 patients will be included in the six participating centers. Data will be centralized at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, Paris, with an anonymized e-CRF.

The investigators will recruit participants from three tertiary care hospitals in Uganda into an observational cohort study of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and HIV-uninfected persons matched for gender and residency, presenting with CT-confirmed stroke. We will collect socio demographic, clinical, laboratory, radiologic, cardiac, and clinical neurologic disease measures to investigate the effect of HIV-infection on 1) clinical and radiologic presentation, 2) risk factor profiles; and 3) stroke outcomes (death or disability).

The purpose of the study is to test the effect of the Alere™ q HIV-1/2 Detect (diagnostic assay) on uptake of HIV testing among HIV-exposed infants and young children, and health outcomes for HIV-infected infants and young children using a novel POC EID Community Model in Zambia. The study will also assess the feasibility of field implementation of this novel diagnostic tool and its acceptability among HIV-infected mothers and frontline health workers.

75 subjects at risk for HIV infection (25 high risk MSM and 50 sero-discordant couples) will be recruited. All subjects will receive Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, as well as routine medical evaluations during one year. Subjects will be managed according to CDC's guidelines on the management of PrEP as a tool for HIV prevention.

Interventions incorporating constructs from behavioral economics and psychology have the potential to enhance HIV 'treatment as prevention' (TasP) strategies. To test this hypothesis, the investigators evaluated a combination intervention to improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence based on the concepts of social norms and priming.

This demonstration project will assess the acceptability and feasibility of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for men who have sex with men (MSM) as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention package in community-based clinics in West Africa. An interventional, open label, multidisciplinary and multicentre cohort study will be performed in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Togo. All MSM enrolled will benefit from a comprehensive HIV prevention package including quarterly clinical examinations, screening and treatment of STIs, screening of HIV, PrEP (daily or on-demand, according the participant's choice), immunisation against hepatitis B, individualised peer-led support (for adherence and prevention), group discussions, condoms, and lubricants.

The purpose of this study is to assess adherence, tolerability and satisfaction of each eligible HIV subjects switching from a two- or three-pill tenofovir-emtricitabine-efavirenz (TDF-FTC-EFV) to a one-pill TDF-FTC-EFV treatment.

The investigators would like to carry out this study to measure drug levels in HIV-infected women that are taking anti-HIV medications. This study will determine the predictors of high drug levels and will assess the association of drug levels and adverse events in women.

The primary objective of this project is to assess the study population's acceptance of two medication adherence support strategies: incentive-based programs and electronic medication monitoring. The study population is adolescents (ages 16 - 24) positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) currently undergoing treatment with antiretrovirals at St. Jude's HIV clinic. Participation in the study will involve completion of a survey: an Audio Computer Assisted Self Interview (ACASI). The duration of the survey is anticipated to be 10-20 minutes. Patient identifiers will not be attached the survey.

To date, all work related to the study of HIV tropism, was performed on HIV B and C subtypes. In the studied samples, HIV variants of subtype A were virtually absent. However, the existence has been shown previously of some differences in the nucleotide sequences in the V3 loop of env region of subtype A from other subtypes of virus. In the Russian Federation the subtype A of HIV-1 is predominant, and, according to some estimates, accounts for about 89% of all newly diagnosed cases of HIV infection. Thus, it seems interesting and effective to study the characteristics of HIV-1 subtype A, associated with the tropism, in the Russian Federation. The primary objective is determination of the prevalence of R5 (chemokine receptor 5), X4 (chemokine receptor 4), and R5X4-tropic variants of HIV in HIV-infected population in Russia, and analysis of the possible features of tropism of viruses belonging to subtype A.