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Impact of Immediate Versus South African Recommendations Guided ART Initiation on HIV Incidence

NCT01509508 ↗

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelPrevention

Summary

This trial is evaluating a public health intervention strategy trial which aims to reduce the incidence of HIV at a population-level. The proposed strategy is a two steps process: * Extensive HIV counselling and testing, and comprehensive prevention programme among a target population * Immediate ART initiation after HIV diagnosis, irrespective of CD4 count criteria. The underlaying trial hypothesis is that HIV testing followed by immediate ART initiation of all HIV-infected individuals will prevent onward transmission and reduce HIV incidence in the population. This is a cluster randomised controlled trial with a total of 22 communities used as the units for randomisation. Enrolment of a population of 22 000 individuals among which 4 400 are expected to be HIV-Infected.

Timeline

Start
2012-03
Primary completion
2016-06
Completion
2016-06

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper adjusted hazard ratio 1·01, 95% CI 0·87-1·17; p=0·89). PMID 29199100 ↗

paper The absence of a lowering of HIV incidence in universal test and treat clusters most likely resulted from poor linkage to care. PMID 29199100 ↗

Publications

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Efavirenz Other / unclassified 600 mg —
Subject Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate Small molecule 245 mg —
Subject emtricitabine Other / unclassified 200 mg —