Raltegravir Versus Efavirenz in Naive HIV-1-infected Patients Receiving Rifampin for Active Tuberculosis (REFLATE TB2)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02273765 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : October 24, 2014
Last Update Posted : December 31, 2018
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV-1 Infection Tuberculosis | Drug: Tenofovir + lamivudine + raltegravir Drug: Tenofovir + lamivudine + efavirenz | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 460 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Phase III Open-label Randomized Multicenter Trial to Assess the Non-inferiority of Raltegravir Compared With EFavirenz, Both in Combination With LAmivudine and TEnofovir, in ART-naïve HIV-1-infected Patients Receiving Rifampin for Active TuBerculosis |
Actual Study Start Date : | September 11, 2015 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 28, 2018 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | November 28, 2018 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: Raltegravir
Tenofovir 300mg QD + lamivudine 300mg QD + raltegravir 400mg BID
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Drug: Tenofovir + lamivudine + raltegravir
In this arm, patients will receive the following medications :
In countries where TDF/3TC FDC is not available, the following separate drugs will be used:
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Experimental: Efavirenz
Tenofovir 300mg QD + lamivudine 300mg QD + efavirenz 600mg QD
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Drug: Tenofovir + lamivudine + efavirenz
In this arm, patients will receive the following medications, in accordance with treatment guidelines in all countries:
OR: • Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) 245 300 mg / lamivudine (3TC) 300 mg / efavirenz (EFV) 600 mg: once a day (1 tablet qd), at night, if possible without food In countries where TDF/3TC FDC is not available, the following separate drugs will be used:
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- Proportion of patients in virologic success [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]Virologic success, defined as plasma HIV-1 RNA <50 copies/mL, at week 48 with a window period of 42 to 54 weeks (snapshot algorithm). Discontinuation of the strategy (ie. permanent discontinuation of EFV, RAL), missing values, loss to follow-up and death will be considered as failure.
- Time to death [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency, type and time to new or recurrent AIDS-defining illnesses [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency, type and time to severe HIV-associated non-AIDS defining illnesses [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency, type and time to grade 3 or 4 adverse events [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency, type and time to drug-induced clinical or biological adverse reactions of grade 3 or 4 or leading to treatment interruption [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Change in plasma HIV-1 RNA from baseline to week 48 [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Proportion of patients in virologic success at each time point (HIV-1 RNA<50 copies/mL) [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Time to virologic failure during follow-up [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency and time to new antiretroviral genotypic resistance in plasma RNA in patients with virologic failure [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Change in CD4 cell counts from baseline to week 48 [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency, type and time to Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Frequency of tuberculosis treatment outcomes [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Signed informed consent form
- Aged 18 years or more
- Confirmed HIV-1 infection as documented at any time prior to trial entry per national HIV testing procedures
- ART naïve
- For women of childbearing potential i.e. women of childbearing age who are not menopausal, or permanently sterilized (e.g. tubal occlusion, hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy) or not refraining from sexual activity: negative urinary test for pregnancy and acceptance to use contraceptive methods
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Confirmed or probable active TB disease of any location, except neurological (meningitis or encephalitis), according to the following criteria based on WHO updated definitions:
- Bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB (PTB) or extrapulmonary TB (EPTB), e.g. TB with a biological specimen positive by smear microscopy, culture or nucleic acid amplification test (such as Xpert MTB/RIF).
- Clinically diagnosed PTB or EPTB with typical histological evidence of TB (caseous or granulomatous) on biopsy specimen or positive urinary LAM test OR a significant improvement on TB treatment
- Ongoing standard rifampin-containing TB treatment for ≤8 weeks at inclusion
- For French patients, affiliation to a Social Security program
Exclusion Criteria:
- HIV-2 co-infection
- Impaired hepatic function (icterus or ALT (SGPT) > 5ULN)
- Hemoglobin < 6.5 g/dl
- Creatinine clearance <60ml/min (assessed by the Cockroft and Gault formula)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain resistant to rifampin (current or past history).
- Neurological TB (meningitis or encephalitis)
- Severe associated diseases requiring specific treatment (including all specific AIDS defining illnesses other than TB, and any severe sepsis)
- Any condition which might, in the investigator's opinion, compromise the safety of treatment and/or patient's adherence to trial procedures including very severe TB-related clinical condition
- Concomitant treatments including phenytoin or phenobarbital (compounds interacting with UGT1A1)
- For HCV co-infected patients, need to start specific treatment for hepatitis during the trial duration
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For women of childbearing potential:
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Refusal to use a contraceptive method
- Any history of ARV intake for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (pMTCT)
- Subjects participating in another clinical trial evaluating therapies and including an exclusion period that is still in force during the screening phase
- Person under guardianship, or deprived of freedom by a judicial or administrative decision

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02273765
Brazil | |
Laboratory of clinical research on STD/AIDS - IPEC/FIOCRUZ | |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
Côte D'Ivoire | |
PACCI / CePReF Centre de Prise en charge de Recherche et de Formation | |
Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire | |
France | |
Hôpital Saint Louis | |
Paris, France | |
Mozambique | |
Instituto Nacional de Saude / Hospital Geral de Machava | |
Maputo, Mozambique | |
Vietnam | |
Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital | |
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
Study Chair: | Beatriz Grinsztejn, MD, PhD | Laboratory on Clinical research on DST/AIDS-IPEC FIOCRUZ Av Brasil, 4365 Manguinhos Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CEP 21040-900 | |
Study Chair: | Nathalie De Castro, MD | AP-HP Hôpital Saint-Louis 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France |
Responsible Party: | French National Institute for Health and Medical Research-French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (Inserm-ANRS) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02273765 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
ANRS 12300 REFLATE TB2 |
First Posted: | October 24, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 31, 2018 |
Last Verified: | December 2018 |
Tuberculosis Mycobacterium Infections Actinomycetales Infections Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Bacterial Infections Tenofovir Lamivudine Efavirenz Raltegravir Potassium Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors |
Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Anti-Retroviral Agents Anti-HIV Agents Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers HIV Integrase Inhibitors Integrase Inhibitors |