Active clinical trials for "HIV Infections"

The LATA trial will find out if taking a long-acting injectable form of HIV medicines, called cabotegravir and rilpivirine, every 2 month works as well as taking tablet HIV medicines every day in young people aged 12-19 years of age. The trial is organised by an international group of researchers from Europe and Africa, and will include 460 young people, from Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Background: People with HIV usually take a combination of 2 or more anti-HIV drugs daily to help manage their infection. Sometimes, however, HIV becomes resistant to these drugs, and the infection cannot be treated. Untreated HIV infection can make people more vulnerable to other infections as well as some cancers. Better treatments are needed for people with drug-resistant HIV. Objective: To see if a study drug (UB-421) is effective in people with drug-resistant HIV. Eligibility: People aged 18 years and older with HIV that is resistant to anti-HIV drugs. Design: Participants will be in the study for 35 weeks. Participants will have separate screening and baseline visits within 2 months of each other. They will have a physical exam with blood and urine tests both times. On the second visit, they will undergo apheresis: Blood will be drawn from a needle in one arm. The blood will pass through a machine that separates out the white blood cells. The remaining blood will be given back through a second needle in the other arm. Participants will begin receiving the study drug 1 week after their baseline visit. UB-421 is given through a tube attached to a needle placed in a vein in the arm. They will return for UB-421 treatments every week for 26 weeks. Each visit will take 3 to 6 hours. Participants will have 2 follow-up visits 4 and 8 weeks after their last treatment with UB-421. Apheresis will be repeated at 1 of these visits.

A double blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial to evaluate effectiveness of azithromycin prophylaxis on mortality in advanced HIV.

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 purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy, safety, and durability of two different strategies to treat participants with a history of sub-optimal adherence and control of their HIV infection: long-acting (LA) antiretroviral therapy (ART) and all-oral standard of care (SOC).

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.

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 purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effect of body changes in pregnancy on doravirine concentrations, to determine what dose of doravirine should be used. Study participants will remain on their normal antiretroviral medications (ARVs) while participating in this study as prescribed by their regular clinic provider. Study participants will come to the research clinic for three sampling visits throughout their time as a participant. Study participants will only take one dose of doravirine during each sampling visit, which will occur during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, as well as after their baby is delivered. This study was designed intentionally to not give a dose of doravirine in the first trimester when there is the greatest chance for all drugs to potentially cause injury to the baby. Study participants that choose to participate in this study may be enrolled for up to 10 months depending on the length of their pregnancy and how the visits are scheduled.

The trial is an open-label, multicenter, prospective, randomized trial in 2 parallel groups, evaluating at W48 the non inferiority of antiretroviral dual therapy taken 4 consecutive days per week versus antiretroviral dual therapy 7/7 days per week in HIV-1 infected patients with controlled viral load under antiretroviral dual therapy.

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.