Combination Treatment With and Without Protease Inhibitors for Women Who Begin Therapy for HIV Infection During Pregnancy
- Conditions
- HIV InfectionsPregnancy
- Registration Number
- NCT00017719
- Brief Summary
The best anti-HIV treatment regimen for pregnant women is not known. Protease inhibitors (PIs) are often used, but they have side effects that may be harmful for pregnant women. It is not known if treatment regimens that do not include PIs are as effective in pregnant women as those that include PIs. This trial will compare two anti-HIV treatment plans, one with and one without PIs, in women who start HIV treatment during pregnancy. The study will evaluate the effects of the anti-HIV drugs on the developing infant and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission during pregnancy.
- Detailed Description
The optimal treatment strategy for women who initiate antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy is not known. Although PI-based antiretroviral regimens are prescribed with increasing frequency among pregnant women, the efficacy and safety of this approach is unknown. Pregnant women are at increased risk for glucose intolerance and insulin resistance; PIs are associated with glucose intolerance. Physiologic differences between pregnant women and nonpregnant adults may alter the pharmacokinetics of antiretroviral regimens. Fetal safety considerations and effects on perinatal HIV transmission must also be considered when selecting an antiretroviral regimen for pregnant women. This trial will compare PI-based and PI-sparing antiretroviral regimens for women initiating antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy.
Women will be stratified on the basis of viral load (50,000 or less copies/ml or greater than 50,000 copies/ml) and gestational age at entry (20 or less weeks or greater than 20 weeks) and then randomized to one of two treatment groups. Group A will receive the PI nelfinavir (NFV) with zidovudine (ZDV) and lamivudine (d4T); Group B will receive nevirapine (NVP) with ZDV and d4T. Women will have clinic visits for physical and obstetrical examinations at 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks after entry and then every 4 weeks until delivery. After delivery, infants in both groups may receive ZDV until they are 6 weeks old. Infants are evaluated for safety and to test the infant's blood for HIV-1 at birth and at Weeks 2, 8, 16, and 24.
Women will continue on assigned antiretroviral therapy postpartum and will have 11 postpartum clinic visits over a period of 2 years. Blood samples from women will be evaluated for safety and for virologic, pharmacokinetic, and metabolic studies. The first 12 women randomized to Group A will undergo a 4-hour pharmacokinetic profile at 32 to 36 weeks gestation and at 8 weeks postpartum to determine the timing of the nelfinavir trough. The first 20 women randomized to Group B will undergo an 8-hour pharmacokinetic profile at either 16 to 24 weeks or 32 to 36 weeks gestation and then again at 8 weeks postpartum to characterize pharmacokinetics of nevirapine at steady state in pregnancy and in the postpartum period.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 440
- HIV infected
- 10 to 30 weeks pregnant
- Plan to continue pregnancy
- CD4 count less than 250 cells/mm3 within 30 days of study entry
- HIV RNA load greater than 1,000 copies/ml within 30 days of study entry
- Antiretroviral naive (except ZDV for 8 weeks or less, including prior pregnancy)
- Willing to follow study requirements and plan to continue receiving anti-HIV treatment for at least 2 years after delivery
- Understand that NFV will not be supplied by the study (except for the first 12 women in Group A)
- Understand the study drug NVP will not be supplied after 1 year following delivery and is reasonably certain that she can obtain NVP by prescription for the second year of the study
- Access to a participating site
- Willing to have infant followed until 24 weeks old
- Parent or guardian willing to provide informed consent, if applicable
- Alcohol or drug abuse
- Chemotherapy for an active cancer
- Require certain medications
- AIDS-related opportunistic infection and/or serious bacterial infection or unstable or serious medical condition within 14 days of study entry
- Chronic malabsorption or diarrhea
- Diabetes, unless it only occurs during pregnancy
- Major fetal problem or abnormality
- Abnormal amniotic fluid volume
- Plan to breastfeed
- Acute hepatitis within 90 days of study entry
- Skin problems such as psoriasis or eczema that require systemic treatment
- Any serious disease that, in the opinion of the study official, would compromise study participation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- FACTORIAL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of women in each treatment group who continue on original therapy with virologic suppression to less than 500 copies/ml at 34 weeks gestation (or the last viral load determination prior to delivery) proportion of women in each treatment group who continue on original therapy with virologic suppression to less than 500 copies/ml at 48 weeks postpartum
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of women in each treatment group who continue on original therapy with virologic suppression to less than 50 copies/ml at 34 weeks gestation (or the last viral load determination prior to delivery) proportion of women in each treatment group who continue on original therapy with virologic suppression to less than 50 copies/ml at 48 weeks postpartum, and to less than 500 and 50 copies/ml at 104 weeks postpartum study treatment adherence and health status by self-report, correlated with predose nelfinavir or nevirapine level at 34 weeks gestation and 8 weeks postpartum difference between postpartum and pregnancy 12-hour area under the concentration curve (AUC) for nevirapine time of trough levels in relation to the morning dose of nevirapine and nelfinavir at 34 weeks gestation and 8 weeks postpartum and correlation of trough levels with viral load incidence of prematurity (less than 37 weeks), extreme prematurity (less than 32 weeks), low birth weight (less than 2.5 kg), and very low birth weight (less than 1.5 kg) among infants born to women in each treatment group incidence of HIV viral resistance by genotype among women in each treatment group at the time of virologic failure incidence of abnormal glucose tolerance, gestational diabetes, and abnormal lactate levels during pregnancy in each treatment group incidence of impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes, hyperinsulinemia, and elevated cholesterol and triglycerides at 8 weeks postpartum in each treatment group incidence of anemia, hypoglycemia, and abnormal liver function studies among infants born to women in each treatment group perinatal HIV transmission among infants born to women in each treatment group
Trial Locations
- Locations (49)
Harbor - UCLA Med. Ctr. - Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Diseases
🇺🇸Torrance, California, United States
WNE Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS CRS
🇺🇸Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Mt. Sinai Hosp. Med. Ctr. - Chicago, Womens & Childrens HIV Program
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States
MetroHealth CRS
🇺🇸Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Jackson Memorial Hosp.
🇺🇸Miami, Florida, United States
HMS - Children's Hosp. Boston, Div. of Infectious Diseases
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Texas Children's Hosp. CRS
🇺🇸Houston, Texas, United States
UW Medicine - Harborview Med. Ctr., Northwest Family Ctr.
🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States
UW School of Medicine - CHRMC
🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States
Univ. of Cincinnati CRS
🇺🇸Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
DUMC Ped. CRS
🇺🇸Durham, North Carolina, United States
Univ. of Miami Ped. Perinatal HIV/AIDS CRS
🇺🇸Miami, Florida, United States
BMC, Div. of Ped Infectious Diseases
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Brigham and Women's Hosp., Div. of Infectious Disease
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr Children's Hosp.
🇺🇸Jackson, Michigan, United States
Montefiore Med. Ctr. - AECOM
🇺🇸Bronx, New York, United States
Univ. of Maryland Med. Ctr., Div. of Ped. Immunology & Rheumatology
🇺🇸Baltimore, Maryland, United States
UCSD Mother-Child-Adolescent Program CRS
🇺🇸San Diego, California, United States
Howard Univ. Washington DC NICHD CRS
🇺🇸Washington, District of Columbia, United States
SOM Federal University Minas Gerais Brazil NICHD CRS
🇧🇷Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nyu Ny Nichd Crs
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States
Med. College of Georgia School of Medicine, Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Diseases
🇺🇸Augusta, Georgia, United States
Johns Hopkins Hosp. & Health System - Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Diseases
🇺🇸Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Princess Margaret Hosp. Bahamas NICHD CRS
🇧🇸Nassau, Bahamas
Columbus Regional HealthCare System, The Med. Ctr.
🇺🇸Columbus, Georgia, United States
Columbia IMPAACT CRS
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States
Baystate Health, Baystate Med. Ctr.
🇺🇸Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Bronx-Lebanon Hosp. IMPAACT CRS
🇺🇸Bronx, New York, United States
Case CRS
🇺🇸Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Seattle Children's Hospital CRS
🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States
Hosp. dos Servidores do Estado CRS
🇧🇷Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
UCSF Pediatric AIDS CRS
🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States
Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Div. of Ped. Infectious Diseases
🇺🇸Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Children's Hospital of Michigan NICHD CRS
🇺🇸Detroit, Michigan, United States
Oregon Health & Science Univ. - Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Disease
🇺🇸Portland, Oregon, United States
Usc La Nichd Crs
🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States
SUNY Upstate Med. Univ., Dept. of Peds.
🇺🇸Syracuse, New York, United States
Tulane Univ. Health Science Ctr., Tulane Univ. Hosp. & Clinic
🇺🇸New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School CRS
🇺🇸Newark, New Jersey, United States
SUNY Stony Brook NICHD CRS
🇺🇸Stony Brook, New York, United States
Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester NY NICHD CRS
🇺🇸Rochester, New York, United States
St. Jude/UTHSC CRS
🇺🇸Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Univ. of Washington NICHD CRS
🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States
Regional Med. Ctr. at Memphis
🇺🇸Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Hosp. dos Servidores Rio de Janeiro NICHD CRS
🇧🇷Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yale Univ. School of Medicine - Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Disease
🇺🇸New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Univ. of Chicago - Dept. of Peds., Div. of Infectious Disease
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States
Tulane/LSU Maternal/Child CRS
🇺🇸New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
San Juan City Hosp. PR NICHD CRS
🇵🇷San Juan, Puerto Rico