Nine Month Course of Anti-HIV Medications for People Recently Infected With HIV

Summary

Although some doctors favor starting anti-HIV treatment as soon as possible after patients learn they are infected, it is not known if treatment for recently infected patients results in long-term benefits or harm. The purpose of this study is to learn whether or not people should take anti-HIV drugs when they are first infected.

Timeline

Start

2005-01

Primary completion

2009-07

Completion

2011-05

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped: “The DSMB concluded that the findings regarding the primary analysis would persist and that no additional study goals would be achieved by continuing the study.”

Publications

• Background Fidler S, Oxenius A, Brady M, Clarke J, Cropley I, Babiker A, Zhang HT, Price D, Phillips R, Weber J. Virological and immunological effects of short-course antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection. AIDS. 2002 Oct 18;16(15):2049-54. doi: 10.1097/00002030-200210180-00010.
• Background Kassutto S, Rosenberg ES. Primary HIV type 1 infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 May 15;38(10):1447-53. doi: 10.1086/420745. Epub 2004 Apr 30.
• Background Little SJ, Holte S, Routy JP, Daar ES, Markowitz M, Collier AC, Koup RA, Mellors JW, Connick E, Conway B, Kilby M, Wang L, Whitcomb JM, Hellmann NS, Richman DD. Antiretroviral-drug resistance among patients recently infected with HIV. N Engl J Med. 2002 Aug 8;347(6):385-94. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa013552.
• Background Pilcher CD, Eron JJ Jr, Galvin S, Gay C, Cohen MS. Acute HIV revisited: new opportunities for treatment and prevention. J Clin Invest. 2004 Apr;113(7):937-45. doi: 10.1172/JCI21540.
• Results Messer K, Vaida F, Hogan C. Robust analysis of biomarker data with informative missingness using a two-stage hypothesis test in an HIV treatment interruption trial: AIEDRP AIN503/ACTG A5217. Contemp Clin Trials. 2006 Dec;27(6):506-17. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.07.003. Epub 2006 Jul 25.
• Results Hogan CM, Degruttola V, Sun X, Fiscus SA, Del Rio C, Hare CB, Markowitz M, Connick E, Macatangay B, Tashima KT, Kallungal B, Camp R, Morton T, Daar ES, Little S; A5217 Study Team. The setpoint study (ACTG A5217): effect of immediate versus deferred antiretroviral therapy on virologic set point in recently HIV-1-infected individuals. J Infect Dis. 2012 Jan 1;205(1):87-96. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir699. Epub 2011 Dec 15.

Drugs

Indications