Undisclosed Antiretroviral Drug Use in a Multinational Clinical Trial (HIV Prevention Trials Network 052)
Author(s) -
Jessica M. Fogel,
Lei Wang,
Teresa L. Parsons,
San-San Ou,
Estelle PiwowarManning,
Ying Chen,
Victor Mudhune,
Mina C. Hosseinipour,
Johnstone Kumwenda,
James Hakim,
Suwat Chariyalertsak,
Ravindre Panchia,
Ian Sanne,
Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy,
Beatriz Grinsztejn,
Joseph Makhema,
José Henrique Pilotto,
Breno Santos,
Kenneth H. Mayer,
Marybeth McCauley,
Theresa Gamble,
Namandjé N. Bumpus,
Craig W. Hendrix,
Myron S. Cohen,
Susan H. Eshleman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1093/infdis/jit390
Subject(s) - medicine , serodiscordant , viral load , clinical trial , drug , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , antiretroviral therapy , pharmacology
The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study enrolled serodiscordant couples. Index participants infected with human immunodeficiency virus reported no prior antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at enrollment. ARV drug testing was performed retrospectively using enrollment samples from a subset of index participants. ARV drugs were detected in 45 of 96 participants (46.9%) with an undetectable viral load, 2 of 48 (4.2%) with a low viral load, and 1 of 65 (1.5%) with a high viral load (P < .0001); they were also detected in follow-up samples from participants who were not receiving study-administered treatment. ARV drug testing may be useful in addition to self-report of ARV drug use in some clinical trial settings.
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