Status:

COMPLETED

Efficacy and Safety of Concomitant Use of Nevirapine and Rifampicin With HIV-TB

Lead Sponsor:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Collaborating Sponsors:

National AIDS Control Organisation

Conditions:

HIV/TB Co-infection

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-60 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Nevarapine and Rifampicin vs Efavirenz and Rifampicin in antiretroviral naive patients co-infected with HIV and TB and to investigate...

Detailed Description

Drug interactions complicate concurrent treatment of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis co-infection. Drug therapy for HIV and tuberculosis each consists of combined regimens with three or four drugs....

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • HIV infection, documented by ELISA test
  • Adult patients
  • Patients co-infected with HIV and Tuberculosis
  • Concomitant use of Nevirapine and Rifampicin in patients co-infected with HIV and Tuberculosis
  • ART Naïve patients

Exclusion

  • Allergy/hypersensitivity to any study drug(s).
  • Prior history of documented drug-resistant TB.
  • Pregnancy
  • Patients with alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase levels more than five times the upper limit of normal.
  • Chronic liver disease due to cirrhosis of liver, hepatitis B \& C virus infection.
  • Chronic alcoholic.
  • Non-complaint patients.
  • Migrant patients.
  • Serious form of pulmonary or extrapulmonary tuberculosis e.g. severe haemoptysis and unconscious patients
  • Concomitant diabetes mellitus.
  • Epilepsy
  • Patients on other immunosuppressive therapy.
  • Malignancy other than Kaposi's Sarcoma requiring therapy.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 1 2013

Estimated Enrollment :

135 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01805258

Start Date

June 1 2007

End Date

February 1 2013

Last Update

March 26 2013

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All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi, New Delhi, India, 110029