HIV Test and Treat to Prevent HIV Transmission Among MSM and Transgender Women

Summary

This study will recruit men and transgender women with acute or recent HIV infection. It wil look at how HIV medicines (ART) when given very early after HIV infection affect the amount of HIV in the blood, semen and rectal secretions. In addition, Investigators will be using modeling studies to look at whether or not this kind of HIV treatment can decrease the risk that a man will infect a person he has sex with and to find out how failure to take medications will impact spreading the virus to other people. In this study, one group will be randomized (like a coin toss) to start ART immediately (just at the time of the enrollment visit) and the other group will wait until week 24 of the study to start ART. Both groups will be followed for a total of 48 weeks and will continue to receive ART from local sources after the study is over.

Timeline

Start

2013-07

Primary completion

2020-11-30

Completion

2021-06-30

Publications

• Bachman VF, Montano MA, Ulrich A, Villaran M, Cabello R, Gonzalez P, Sanchez H, Lama JR, Duerr A. Correlates of condomless anal intercourse with different types of sexual partners among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Lima, Peru. AIDS Care. 2023 Jun;35(6):791-799. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1994517. Epub 2021 Oct 26.
• Mayer ME, White E, Montano MA, Lama JR, Sanchez H, Cabello R, Sanchez J, Pasalar S, Duerr A. Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: The Need for More Targeted Outreach to Men Who Also Have Sex With Cisgender Women. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2021 Mar 1;86(3):265-270. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002568.
• Lama JR, Ignacio RAB, Alfaro R, Rios J, Cartagena JG, Valdez R, Bain C, Barbaran KS, Villaran MV, Pilcher CD, Gonzales P, Sanchez J, Duerr A. Clinical and Immunologic Outcomes After Immediate or Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation During Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: The Sabes Randomized Clinical Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 15;72(6):1042-1050. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa167.

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