Prevention of Perinatal Transmission of HIV-1 Without Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (MONOGEST)

ANRS, Emerging Infectious Diseases

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Maternal-fetal Infection Transmission

Treatments

Drug: darunavir monotherapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02738502

ANRS 168 MONOGEST

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall goal is to study the feasibility of darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) monotherapy as treatment simplification (switch) in pretreated pregnant women, associated with neonatal prophylaxis with nevirapine, constituting a PMTCT strategy without any Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NRTIs) .

Full description

90 participants will be enrolled and switch to darunavir monotherapy early in pregnancy (before 16 weeks of amenorrhea) in order to reduce exposure to the antiretroviral nucleos(t)ide analogues. The study treatment during the pregnancy is: darunavir 600 mg + ritonavir 100 mg 2 times 24 (DRV/r) monotherapy This regimen will be started after checking the tolerance of DRV/r 600 mg/100 mg twice daily (recommended dosage for pregnancy in French national recommendations) to replace whatever prior antiretrovirals (ARVs) were used, while maintaining the NRTI backbone for 2 weeks. Woman already receiving a triple drug combination with DRV/r will proceed directly to treatment simplification. If clinical tolerance of DRV/r is satisfactory after 2 weeks, nucleos(t)ides will be stopped. In case of intolerance, the treatment will be determined by the investigator but follow-up of the patient will continue.

No zidovudine will be administered at delivery in case of virological control, according to French Guidelines (Morlat Report 2015).

After delivery, the choice of maternal antiretrovial therapy (ART) is left to the discretion of the clinician and patient.

The mothers are followed up monthly until delivery and the last visit is planes at W4-W6 postpartum. Virological efficacy and safety will be assessed monthly.

In neonates, the prophylactic treatment, nevirapine oral solution, will be administrated as soon as possible in the first 12 hours of life and then for 14 days, once a day at a daily dose of 15 mg for a birthweight ≥ 2.5 kg ; 10 mg for a birthweight ≥ 2 kg and < 2.5 kg and 2 mg / kg for a birthweight < 2 kg (WHO Guidelines 2013 - French Guidelines, "Morlat Report" 2015).

Clinical and virological monitoring will be performed at Day 3, Day 15 in case of hospitalization, M1, M3 and M6.

Statistical Methods The analysis of the primary endpoint is the proportion of virological success (VL < 50 copies/mL at delivery among women remaining on DRV/r). All changes in antiretroviral therapy because of VL ≥ 50 copies/ml will be considered as failures. Women who change antiretroviral therapy for other reasons and/or when pregnancy outcome is before 22 weeks of amenorrhea and < 500g (non-viable pregnancy according to WHO) will be removed from the denominator.

Analysis of treatment changes, tolerance for the mother and child and factors associated with virological failure will be done by estimating percentages (categorical variables), average and median (continuous variables) with their intervals 95% confidence, overall and compared between the groups with virological success or failure per protocol (primary endpoint) or by intention to treat (secondary endpoint). The evolution of the parameters measured in children at birth, at 1, 3, and 6, months will be explored using non-parametric curves and compared between groups by repeated data taking into account the nonlinearity developments.

No interim analysis is planned.

Enrollment

91 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Pregnant woman, under 15 weeks gestational age at screening
Documented Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) HIV-1 infection (serology and/or plasma HIV RNA viral load)
Current treatment with at least two ARVs
Virological suppression for at least 12 months, defined by a PVL < 50 copies / mL. A blip (transiently ≥ 50 but < 400 copies/mL) will not be considered as an exclusion criterion, if it is followed by 2 successive controls with CV < 50 at least one month before enrollment
Plasma viral load < 50 copies/mL at pre-inclusion
CD4 ≥ 250 cells/mm3 at pre-inclusion
Informed written consent
Health care coverage

Inclusion criteria for the child :

Mother enrolled in the trial
Informed written consent by parents or legal guardians

Exclusion criteria

Infection by HIV-2
History of treatment failure and/or resistance with any Protease Inhibitor (PI). Treatment failure is defined by a viral replication (≥ 50 copies/mL) during antiretroviral treatment. An increasing CV due to treatment interruption will not be considered as a failure, providing that the absence of resistance mutations to at least one PI can be confirmed by genotyping.
Documented CD4 lymphocyte less than 200/mm3
Known intolerance to darunavir or ritonavir
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) co-infection (HBs Ag-positive and/or detectable HBV DNA) on therapy with analogs (tenofovir, emtricitabine, lamivudine)
Known resistance of maternal viral strain to darunavir or nevirapine
Intended absence (travel abroad, moving ...)
Expected delivery in a maternity hospital not participating in the trial
Participation in the trial during previous pregnancy
Persons under guardianship or deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision

Exclusion criteria for the child: