Conditions: Infection, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Keywords: Abacavir/dolutegravir/lamivudine Fixed-dose combination Once daily Trii Single-tablet regimen
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 555
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is a 48-week, Phase IIIb, randomly assigned, open-label, active-controlled, multicenter, parallel group, non-inferiority study. This study is designed to demonstrate the non-inferior antiviral activity of switching to the Abacavir (ABC) 600 milligrams (mg)/Dolutegravir(DTG) 50 mg/Lamivudine (3TC) 300 mg fixed-dose combination (FDC) compared with continuing the subject's current suppressive regimen through 24 weeks. The study will be conducted in approximately 538 Human Immunodeficiency Virus -1 (HIV-1) infected individuals who are on stable suppressive combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) with 2 Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) plus either a protease inhibitor (PI), an non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), or an integrase inhibitor (INI). Eligible subjects will be randomly assigned 1:1 to continue their current regimen (approximately 269 subjects) or be switched to ABC/DTG/3TC FDC (approximately 269 subjects) once daily for 24 weeks. At Week 24, individuals originally randomly assigned to continue their current regimen will switch to ABC/DTG/3TC FDC and be followed for an additional 24 weeks. Individuals initially randomly assigned to ABC/DTG/3TC FDC will continue on that treatment arm for an additional 24 weeks. A pharmacokinetic (PK) substudy will be conducted at a small number of sites (approximately 10) to evaluate predose DTG concentrations as well as residual drug concentrations of efavirenz (EFV), nevaripine (NVP), amprenavir (APV) and tipranavir (TPV) in a subgroup of subjects who switch from EFV, NVP, fosamprenavir/ritonavir (FPV/r) or tipranavir/ritonavir (TPV/r).

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Subject will take ABC 600 mg/DTG 50 mg/3TC 300 mg FDC once daily in the morning or the evening, at approximately the same time each day for 24 weeks. After Week 24, subjects will continue on this treatment arm for an additional 24 weeks. arm 2: Subjects will continue on their current Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) regimen for 24 weeks. At Week 24, subjects will switch to ABC/DTG/3TC FDC for an additional 24 weeks.

Interventions: intervention 1: ABC/DTG/3TC FDC intervention 2: Ongoing cART regimen
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Purple, oval, biconvex tablets containing 702 mg Abacavir sulphate which is equivalent to 600 mg ABC, 52.62 mg Dolutegravir sodium which is equivalent to 50 mg Dolutegravir free acid and 300 mg 3TC intervention 2: Stable cART regimens including boosted PI (or ATV unboosted) + 2 NRTIs; NNRTI + 2 NRTIs, or INI (RAL or EVG)+ 2 NRTIs

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