Monitoring Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-infected Parents in Thailand
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00162682 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : September 13, 2005
Last Update Posted : January 6, 2012
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV Infections | Procedure: Antiretroviral Drug Combination Switching Criteria | Phase 3 |
Implementation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has led to a substantial decrease in HIV-related mortality and morbidity. Current guidelines emphasize maximal and durable viral load suppression. However, while the goal of therapy is the restoration of immunity, treatment failure is usually defined as the inability to maintain undetectable viral load, without regard to immune function. This situation often leads to a rapid sequence of therapeutic switches, thus narrowing therapeutic options over time. A monitoring strategy driven primarily by the patient's immune restoration would most likely be as effective in preventing disease progression, would lead to fewer changes in HAART regimens and would be considerably simpler and cost effective.
Subjects will be randomly assigned to one of two switching strategies:
- VL-S, the standard viral load (VL) based monitoring strategy, where switching is performed when VL is confirmed (within one month) above 400 copies per mL.
- CD4-S, the alternative CD4 based monitoring strategy where switching is performed when a confirmed (within one month) relative decline in CD4 count of more than 30% from peak values is observed within 200 cells from baseline.
The initial HAART regimen will be a NNRTI+NRTI containing regimen and the second line regimen will be a PI containing regimen, subsequent regimens will be chosen individually based on tolerance, previous drugs used, resistance profile, and drugs available. Patients will be followed until the end of the study (maximum of 5 years for the first enrollee, three years for the last enrollee).
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 716 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase III, Randomized, Non-inferiority Trial Comparing the Standard Viral Load Based Antiretroviral Monitoring Strategy With a CD4 Based Monitoring Strategy Among Antiretroviral Naive Immunocompromised Adults in Thailand |
Study Start Date : | May 2005 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | April 2010 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2011 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: 1
* VL-S, the standard viral load (VL) based monitoring strategy, where switching is performed when VL is confirmed (within one month) above 400 copies per mL.
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Procedure: Antiretroviral Drug Combination Switching Criteria
Antiretroviral treatment will use the standard viral load (VL) based monitoring strategy, where switching is performed when VL is confirmed (within one month) above 400 copies per mL. |
Experimental: 2
CD4-S, the alternative CD4 based monitoring strategy where switching is performed when a confirmed (within one month) relative decline in CD4 count of more than 30% from peak values is observed within 200 cells from baseline.
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Procedure: Antiretroviral Drug Combination Switching Criteria
Antiretroviral treatment is monitored using a CD4 based monitoring strategy where switching is performed when a confirmed (within one month) relative decline in CD4 count of more than 30% from peak values is observed within 200 cells from baseline. |
- Proportion of "clinical failures" defined as confirmed CD4 count below 50/mm3, first or new AIDS-defining event, or death [ Time Frame: After 3 years of follow-up ]
- The number of therapeutic options left taking into account drugs exhausted cross-resistance mutations and shared toxicities [ Time Frame: After 3 years of follow-up ]
- The secondary endpoint related to safety will be time to the first development of grade 3 or grade 4 sign, symptom, and laboratory abnormality. [ Time Frame: During 3 years of follow-up ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Eligibility Criteria:
Patients fulfilling the following criteria are eligible:
- At least 18 years of age
- Confirmed HIV infection: two positive serology results from two different blood draws are required for documentation of HIV infection.
- Antiretroviral drug naïve with the exception of short course of antiretrovirals received in the context of the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission
- Need for antiretroviral treatment
- Willingness to receive a long-term treatment for the HIV infection, according to the study schedule at the participating site
- Signed informed consent to participate in the study (the patient's legal guardian may give his/her consent if the patient cannot provide consent)
- Does not present an exclusion criteria to the knowledge of the site investigator
Inclusion Criteria:
Eligible patients fulfilling the following criteria can be enrolled in the study:
- Meeting all eligibility criteria
- Two CD4+ cell counts between 50 and 250 cells/mm3 performed within the last six months before enrolment (CD4 cell count should be assessed at least 2 weeks apart from any acute infection)
- Willingness to modify antiretroviral therapy in accordance with the randomized switching scheme assignment
- Subject understands that study drugs will be supplied for free by the study only during participation in the study. After discontinuation of the study, patients will be taken care of in the National ARV Access Program.
Exclusion Criteria:
- For women, pregnancy
- For women of child bearing potential, lack of willingness to follow an effective method of contraception (in case, during the study, a woman wants to become pregnant or becomes pregnant, she should inform the physician immediately for best therapeutic decision)
- Chronic hepatitis B or C
- Acute hepatitis within 30 days of study entry.
- Acute HIV infection, as it can be established with the date of last negative serology less than one year before enrollment and the history of the patient disease
- Co-enrollment in another study without prior written agreement of the study team
- Psycho-social environment or condition which, in the physician's opinion, makes adherence to the protocol highly unlikely.
- Pre-existing diabetes mellitus (prior gestational diabetes is allowed).
- The following laboratory values: hemoglobin < 8.0 mg/dl, absolute neutrophil count < 1000 cells/mm3, ALT, AST or total bilirubin value > 5.0 x ULN, serum creatinine > 1.0 x ULN, platelet count < 50,000/mm3, pancreatic amylase >2.0 x ULN or lipase > 2.0 X ULN, or total amylase > 2.0 X ULN plus symptoms of pancreatitis.
- Severe illness, grade 3 or 4 laboratory exam values not resolved within one month of enrollment without previous agreement of the PHPT attending physician
- Any clinically significant condition (other than HIV infection) which, in the investigator's opinion, would interfere with the conduct of the study.
- Current active substance or alcohol abuse that would interfere with participation in the study.
- Condition(s) that contraindicate all the first line regimens proposed in this study.
- Chemotherapy for active malignancy.

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Principal Investigator: | Marc Lallemant, MD | Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement & Harvard School of Public Health |
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Responsible Party: | Marc Lallemant, Senior Researcher, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00162682 |
Obsolete Identifiers: | NCT00197626 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
R01HD042964 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | September 13, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | January 6, 2012 |
Last Verified: | January 2012 |
HIV Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Monitoring Viral load CD4 |
Thailand Future Drug Options Resistance Developing Country Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
HIV Infections Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases Anti-Retroviral Agents Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents |