Adherence, Efficacy and Tolerance of Once-a-day Nevirapine-based Regimen in HIV-1 Infected Patients (POSOVIR)

Caen University Hospital

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

HIV Infections

Treatments

Behavioral: Nevirapine from twice-a-day to once-a-day

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00466180

POSOVIR

Details and patient eligibility

About

Taking antiretrovirals once-a-day is considered the simpler way to improve adherence. However, it is not know if this assertion apply to patients taking their medication twice-a-day who change to once-a-day.

We hypothesized that once-daily dosing improves adherence.

Enrollment

62 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

HIV-1 infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy including nevirapine twice-a-day for at least 6 months
plasma HIV RNA<400 cp/ml during the previous 4 months on 2 occasions
accept adherence electronic monitoring
written informed consent signed

Exclusion criteria

asparate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >2.5N if hepatitis virus B or C were negative
AST or ALT>1.25N if hepatitis virus B or C were positive