Evaluation of HCV Care and Treatment for HIV-HCV Co-infected Patients in Decentralised Areas in Vietnam
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 400
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- To compare compliance to the 12-week DAA treatment between patients followed in the same clinical site for HIV and HCV infections, and patients followed in two clinical sites for these two infections
研究概览
简要总结
With the advent of direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment in 2013, HCV elimination has become feasible. Still, achieving HCV elimination in resource-limited countries appears to be arduous as several challenges need to be addressed.
In remote settings, absence of HCV VL testing to identify those who require DAA and to monitor DAA success is a first issue. As of today, HCV VL testing is still restricted to central facilities in major cities. Blood sampling using DBS is an appealing option to allow HCV VL monitoring in remote settings as this option is inexpensive, does not require a cold chain for storage and transportation of the samples and can be implemented rapidly.
A second issue is DAA access that remains scarce due to logistical and financial limitations. However, more affordable generic DAA, some of them being WHO pre-qualified, are now available.
Vietnam is amongst the 20 countries with the highest HCV burden with an estimate of 1.5 million chronic HCV-infected people (HCV prevalence: 1.1%). As observed in many other settings, HCV prevalence is higher among vulnerable populations such as HIV-infected individuals and people who inject drugs (PWID).
Vietnam has the will to increase access to DAA in the whole country. However, in remote settings, only some clinical sites will be allowed to dispense DAA. Discussions with the MoH of Vietnam brought to our knowledge that not all clinical sites caring for HIV patients and providing ART will dispense DAA.
Thus, some HIV-HCV co-infected patients will be followed in clinical sites where they will receive both antiretroviral therapy and DAA, while some other patients will continue to be followed for HIV in their usual clinical site but will be asked to visit another clinical site for HCV care and to receive DAA. We anticipate that the proportion of patients who will comply with the 12-week DAA will be lower in patients followed for HIV and HCV in two clinical sites than in those followed in a single clinical site.
详细描述
In 2015, it was estimated that 71 million people were chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) worldwide and that HCV accounted for a total of 1.34 million deaths, more than the number of deaths due to HIV. With the advent of direct acting antivirals (DAA) in 2013, HCV elimination has however become feasible. DAA treatment is essentially a combination of two DAA drugs from two different classes, having distinct mode of action against HCV. The rate of HCV cure after 12-week DAA treatment is usually >90%, whatever the genotype and even in presence of HIV co-infection. These very encouraging results led the WHO to launch the "elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030" acting plan, which targets, for HCV and hepatitis B virus (HBV), an overall 65% reduction in mortality and a 90% reduction in the number of new infections by 2030, as compared to the situation in 2015.
However, achieving HCV elimination in resource-limited countries appears to be arduous as several challenges still need to be addressed. HCV diagnosis is the first difficulty to overcome, but rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) which have largely been evaluated and present high sensitivity and specificity fulfilling standards of use allow to overcome this difficulty. Other barriers in the cascade of HCV care in remote settings include absence of HCV viral load (VL) testing to identify those who require DAA and to monitor DAA treatment success. As of today, HCV VL testing is still restricted to central facilities in major cities. Blood sampling using dried blood spots (DBS) is an appealing option to allow HCV VL monitoring in remote settings as this option is inexpensive, does not require a cold chain for storage and transportation of the samples and can be implemented rapidly. Moreover, DBS have been shown to perform well for HCV VL testing. Finally, DAA access remains scarce due to logistical and financial limitations. However, more affordable generic DAA, some of them being WHO pre-qualified, are now available.
Vietnam is amongst the 20 countries with the highest burden of HCV with an estimate of 1.5 million chronic HCV-infected people (HCV prevalence: 1.1%). Circulating HCV viruses are mainly genotype 1 and 6, subtypes 1a and 1b being the most common followed by 6a. As observed in many other settings, HCV prevalence is higher among vulnerable populations such as HIV-infected individuals (22.9% to 89.0%) and people who inject drugs (PWID) (74.0% to 87.0%). Moreover, PWID are core-transmitters with higher risk of re-infection than in the general population, which could compromise HCV eradication; a high rate of re-infection was found in PWID in Spain (9.8/100 PY) and in Bangladesh (4.2/100 PY).
Situation in Vietnam:
Vietnam has the will to increase access to HCV care in order to reach the World Health Organization (WHO) goals by 2030. As of today, DAA are almost exclusively available in national hospitals in large cities (i.e. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City). Its dispensation in remote settings is underway, but only a limited number of clinical sites will be selected to dispense DAA. Importantly, discussions with the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Vietnam brought to our knowledge that not all clinical sites caring for HIV patients will dispense DAA.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Age at enrolment ≥18 years.
- •Documented HIV-1 infection.
- •HCV infection documented by the presence of Anti-HCV antibodies or a positive RDT; if the result was negative but dates from more than 6 months the patient will be tested again.
- •Consent to participate in the study
排除标准
- •HCV negative patient.
- •Patient not routinely followed for HIV care in the clinical sites participating in the study.
- •Previous treatment by DAA.
- •Patient for whom the health status, according to the medical staff, may interfere with the study or is not compatible with the sampling planned in the study
结局指标
主要结局
To compare compliance to the 12-week DAA treatment between patients followed in the same clinical site for HIV and HCV infections, and patients followed in two clinical sites for these two infections
时间窗: 12 weeks
Proportion of patients who have taken ≥90% of daily doses during the 12-week DAA (measured by pill count).
次要结局
- To describe the HCV genotypes circulating(24 weeks)
- To describe the compliance to the 12-week DAA treatment, and identify factors associated with good compliance(12 weeks)
- To describe HCV drug resistances in those not achieving SVR12,(24 weeks)
- To evaluate and compare the efficacy of the DAA treatment (defined by SVR12), and identify factors associated with SVR12(24 weeks)
- To estimate the rate of HCV re-infection within 24 months after SVR12(30 months)
- To evaluate and compare quality of life in HIV-HCV co-infected patients before and after DAA treatment.(18 months)