Conditions: Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 4 Chronic Hepatitis C
Keywords: Chronic hepatitis C Genotype 4 chronic hepatitis C Simeprevir Sofosbuvir
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 40
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to show superiority of simeprevir (SMV) in combination with sofosbuvir for 12 weeks versus a historical control. Historical control will be a composite of the observed historical sustained virological response at Week 12 (SVR12) rates of SMV in combination with (pegylated) interferon (PegIFN)/ribavirin (RBV) of the subpopulations in study HPC3011 (NCT01567735) and will depend on the percentage of treatment-naive, prior relapser, prior non-responder, interferon (IFN)-intolerant and other subjects enrolled in this study.

Detailed description:
This is a Phase 3, open-label (all people know the identity of the intervention), single-arm, multicenter study (conducted at multiple sites). The study consists of 3 periods: a Screening period (up to 4 weeks), Treatment period (12 Weeks) and Post treatment follow-up period (until 24 weeks after end of treatment). The duration of the subjects' participation will be approximately 40 weeks. In the treatment period subjects will receive oral capsule simeprevir along with oral tablet sofosbuvir once daily for 12 weeks. Primarily efficacy will be evaluated as percentage of subjects with sustained virologic response at Week 12 after the end of treatment. Subjects' safety will be monitored throughout the study.

Arms:
arm 1: Subjects will receive oral capsule of Simeprevir 150 milligram (mg) along with oral tablet of sofosbuvir 400 mg, once a day from Day 1 up to Week 12.

Interventions: intervention 1: Simeprevir intervention 2: Sofosbuvir
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Subjects will receive oral capsule of Simeprevir 150 mg, once a day from Day 1 up to Week 12. intervention 2: Subjects will receive oral tablet of sofosbuvir 400 mg, once a day from Day 1 up to Week 12.

Protocol document: