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Filter by:This is a multicenter controlled interventional trial. This phase 1 trial is the first study to assess 426c.Mod.Core-C4b adjuvanted with 3M-052-AF + aluminum hydroxide suspension (Alum) in people living with HIV (PLWH).
Due to the high prevalence of HCV in prison and the risk of transmission between inmates, the management of hepatitis C and its treatment must be optimal following the recommendations of AFEF. The purpose of this study is to assess the treatment starting delay from the date of incarceration of inmates with chronic HCV infection (hepatitis C).
Among nearly 1 million HIV-infected children receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), as many as 40% of those living in resource limited settings have not achieved virologic suppression. Kenya, a The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) fast-track and The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) priority country, has an estimated 98,000 children aged 0-14 years living with HIV. Virologic suppression is achieved by only 65% of Kenyan children on ART translating to only 38% of the final UNAIDS 90-90-90 goal for population-level viral suppression. Feasible, scalable and cost-effective approaches to maximizing durability of first-line ART and ensuring viral load (VL) suppression in HIV-infected children are urgently needed. This pilot study will evaluate two critical components related to viral suppression in children via: 1) Point-of-care (POC) VL testing (Aim 1) and 2) targeted drug resistance mutation (DRM) testing (Aim 2) among children on first-line ART at three facilities within a PEPFAR-funded HIV care and treatment program in Kenya. The hypotheses are: 1) viral suppression rates will be higher among children with access to POC VL testing and time to suppression shorter compared to children with standard VL testing and 2) DRM testing will shorten time to viral suppression and that the investigators will observe high levels of 1st line antiretroviral DRMs among children on ART without viral suppression. This proposal directly addresses the urgent need to find interventions to maximize viral suppression among children on ART and achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals.
The XN-20, is a full blood count (FBC) analyser with an extended differential counting and flagging System. The XN-Series' individual channels allow real-time reflex analysis, and uses a two stage process to classify the white blood count (WBC) sub-populations and detect the presence of abnormal reactive and malignant cells. In regards to lymphocytes in the peripheral blood, the machine has the capacity to distinguish activated from non-activated T-cell subsets using a very small volume of EDTA sample (88uL) (including remnant sample from a standard full blood count) with results available in 1.5 minutes. It is a fully automated process and can be considered as an alternative rapid flow cytometry method. Objective of the SASA study: to investigate the signal pattern of white blood cells assessed using the XN-20 full blood count platform in patients with untreated viral infections i.e. HIV, HCV and HBV. The data from the analysis will be reviewed in conjunction with patient's demographic and clinical disease characteristics with the aim of detecting characteristic cell populations that can be used in the development of system flags for future studies.
The mass provision of HIV treatment in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has raised adult life expectancy by 18 years since 2003. We will conduct a population-based survey to assess young adults' beliefs about HIV, HIV treatment, and expectations for the future in the era of mass HIV treatment. Thh investigators will conduct a randomized evaluation to assess whether a short video providing young adults with information on longevity gains from HIV treatment affects young adults survival expectations, hope for the future, and health and educational behaviours, including uptake of HIV testing, the study's primary outcome.
Effective management of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential to improve clinical outcomes and prevent HIV transmission, but monitoring life-long ART for over 15 million HIV-infected people has become a challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As programs continue to focus on identifying HIV-infected people and starting ART at higher CD4 thresholds, HIV providers have been overburdened, which has resulted in falling retention rates. As ART coverage scales up to include millions more people, additional strain will be placed on HIV clinicians and laboratories to manage stable patients on chronic ART. Implementing point-of-care HIV VL testing to enable task shifting to nurses for chronic HIV care may help mitigate these burdens. Point-of-care Viral Load (VL) testing is intended to differentiate patients who are potentially failing on their ART, so that they can be referred to the next level of care for possible ART regiment change, from patients who are virally suppressed on ART and can be managed by nurses. The investigator's scientific objective is to test the clinical equivalence and reduced cost of implementing a model for chronic HIV care that uses a point-of-care HIV VL assay to enable streamlined care and task shifting among healthcare workers at an urban clinic in South Africa. The central hypothesis is that rapid HIV VL testing, implemented by nurses, is an effective and cost-efficient strategy for management of chronic HIV infection in the majority of patients, thereby allowing more resources to be directed at the minority of patients who need greater attention. This work is innovative because it uses a randomized evaluation of an implementation model that combines a novel diagnostic point-of-care test with streamlined care and task shifting among healthcare workers compared to standard of care for chronic HIV care in a resource-limited setting. This randomized trial will then form the basis of a larger, multicountry proposal to demonstrate the clinical equivalence and cost-effectiveness of implementing an integrated point-of-care HIV VL testing and streamlined care model for chronic HIV care in LMICs. If nurses using clinic-based HIV VL testing are cost-effective for achieving both viral suppression and retention in care among patients on ART, then implementation of this chronic HIV care model would alleviate the strain on existing HIV providers and laboratories in LMICs.
The REDUC ("Kick and Kill") trial's objective is to address one of the core issues with the treatment of HIV, which is that some HIV infected cells hide in so-called latent reservoirs. The reservoirs are unaffected by conventional HIV medication and invisible to the immune system. HDACi have the potential to activate ("Kick") these latently infected cells. This will make the HIV infected cells visible to the immune system; the immune response generate by Vacc-4x will be able to attack and eliminate ("Kill") the infected cells.
This study examines the impact of fosamprenavir as part of an ART on virological, immunological and clinical parameters of genotype 1 HCV infection in HIV co-infected subjects. Fosamprenavir could have a direct or immune-mediated activity against HCV. If this is shown to be true, changes in HCV viral load or biological characteristics could be demonstrated.
This is a protocol designed to randomize subjects with acute HIV infection to receive standard HAART or mega-HAART for subject who are enrolled in SEARCH 010 study (protocol title: Establish and characterize an acute HIV infection cohort in a Thai high risk population. To describe the impact of standard HAART versus mega-HAART initiated during the acute HIV infection period on immunological and virological outcomes.