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CARMA Global study hits recruitment target

2023

The CARMA Global study, part of the EPIICAL project, has successfully met its recruitment target and recruited 99 children and adolescents living with HIV from across the globe. The study includes children and adolescents who acquired HIV around the period of their birth and then started antiretroviral therapy (ART) at a young age to control the virus and prevent its progression.

The primary aim of CARMA Global is to investigate how the body responds to HIV and how the virus is stored and behaves in the body over time.

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SMILE once-daily regimen non-inferior to triple ART regimen

2023

Findings from the Strategy for Maintenance of HIV suppression with integrase inhibitor + darunavir/ritonavir in children (PENTA-17) trial, simply known as SMILE, were published in eClinicalMedicine on 2 June 2023. SMILE is the first randomised trial to determine whether children living with HIV on ART with suppressed viral load could maintain the suppression on a once-daily regimen compared to the standard of care (SOC) which involves three ART drugs. 

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ODYSSEY clinical trial design: a randomised global study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive children, with nested pharmacokinetic sub-studies to evaluate pragmatic WHO-weight-band based dolutegravir dosing

2021

Authors: Cecilia L. Moore, Anna Turkova , Hilda Mujuru , Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Abbas Lugemwa, Cissy M. Kityo, Linda N. Barlow-Mosha, et al, ODYSSEY trial team

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases

 

Background: Dolutegravir (DTG)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) is highly effective and well-tolerated in adults and is rapidly being adopted globally. We describe the design of the ODYSSEY trial which evaluates the efficacy and safety of DTG-based ART compared with standard-of-care in children and adolescents.

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EPIICAL data on Journal of AIDS: treat early, suppress fast!

2019

Treat early, suppress fast!

In a new paper just published online in Journal of AIDS, EPIICAL researchers investigated the association between the timing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and time-to suppression​ among HIV-infected infants who initiated​ ART within the first 28 days of life.

The study showed as children treated within 7 days of life have a faster​ time to viral suppression, which may result in a favorable ​impact on the viral reservoir.

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