Clinical trial NCT02060162: Antiretroviral Treatment Outcomes in HIV-HBV Co-infected Patients in Southern Africa
Official title: Antiretroviral Treatment Outcomes in HIV-HBV Co-infected Patients in Southern Africa: a Collaborative Multi-country Prospective Cohort Analysis for International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS- Southern Africa (HIV/HBV-coinfection in IeDEA-SA)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Hepatitis B Virus
HIV
Antiretroviral Therapy
Africa
Liver Fibrosis
Alcohol Use Disorder
Keywords: antiretroviral therapy
Hepatitis C virus
Lead sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
name: University of Bern
First posted: 2014-02-11
Enrollment: 897
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Enrollment of 1,900 consecutive patients starting ART (900 in Zambia and 1,000 in Mozambique) is planned.

Brief summary: This is a prospective HIV cohort that aims to establish causes of liver disease among HIV-infected individuals in Zambia, including viral hepatitis and alcohol.

Detailed description: The study will take place during routinely scheduled ART visits as per Ministry of Health guidelines. Routinely collected programmatic data will be used to assess general HIV outcomes (CD4 response, loss to follow-up, death) as well as collecting study specific data (hepatitis testing, questionnaire regarding risk factors for hepatitis/liver disease, and non-invasive liver scan) to address other aims. The study will be implemented at two sites in Southern Africa (Zambia and Mozambique) with a total enrollment across all sites of 1,900 participants. The Zambia site will only enroll 900.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* HIV-infected
* Male or female aged ≥18 years
* ART naïve
* ART eligible as defined by Zambian or WHO treatment guidelines
* Initiating an ART regimen including at least 3 drugs at one of the study sites.
* Willing to provide signed informed consent and be followed at the clinical site.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who are not planning to remain in the catchment area from which they were recruited for the duration of the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Immunological response
timeFrame: 12 months post enrollment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: HIV virological response
timeFrame: 12 months post enrollment
measure: Mortality
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Hepatotoxicity events
timeFrame: 6 and 12 months
measure: Prevalence liver fibrosis
timeFrame: Baseline and one year after start of ART
measure: HBV drug resistance
timeFrame: 1 and 2 years post enrollment
measure: Incidence of HBV infection
timeFrame: 12 and 24 months post enrollment
measure: Prevalence of HIV/HCV coinfection
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Alcohol use patterns
timeFrame: Baseline, 12, and 24 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lusaka
country: Zambia
facility: Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Study officials:
affiliation: Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
name: Roma Chilengi, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
name: Michael Vinikoor, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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