Status:

COMPLETED

A HIV Vaccine Trial in Individuals Who Started Antiretrovirals During Primary or Chronic Infection (EHVA T02)

Lead Sponsor:

ANRS, Emerging Infectious Diseases

Collaborating Sponsors:

EuroVacc Foundation

European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)

Conditions:

HIV-1-infection

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

EHVA T02 is an international, phase II, double-blind study to evaluate two experimental arms each compared to placebo control in HIV-1 positive participants to see if either has a clinically relevant ...

Detailed Description

Screening will take place during the 6 weeks prior to randomisation. Eligible participants will be enrolled at week 0 and randomised to MVA HIV-B vaccine followed by vedolizumab, vedolizumab + placebo...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • HIV-1-infected
  • Aged 18 - 65 years old on the day of screening
  • Weight \>50kg
  • Willing and able to provide written informed consent
  • Nadir CD4 count \> 300 cells/mm3
  • CD4 count at screening \> 500 cells/mm3
  • Viral load \<50 copies/ml at screening.
  • Started cART after 2009 and on cART for at least one year prior to screening
  • Willing to interrupt cART for up to 24 weeks and change cART regimen if required
  • If sexually active, willing to use a reliable method of reducing the risk of transmission to their sexual partners during treatment interruption (which could include PrEP for their sexual partners)
  • If heterosexually active and able to have children, willing to use a highly effective method of contraception with partner (combined oral contraceptive pill; injectable or implanted contraceptive; IUD/IUS; physiological or anatomical sterility (in self or partner) from 2 weeks before enrolment until 18 weeks after the last injection/infusion
  • If women of childbearing potential\*, willing to undergo urine pregnancy tests prior to administration of an injection and an infusion
  • Willing to avoid all other vaccines within 4 weeks of scheduled study injections
  • Willing and able to comply with visit schedule and provide blood samples
  • Being covered by medical insurance or in National Healthcare System
  • A woman will be considered of childbearing potential following menarche and until becoming post-menopausal unless permanently sterile. Permanent sterilisation methods include hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.

Exclusion

  • Pregnant or lactating
  • HIV-2 infection (either isolated or associated with HIV-1)
  • VL \>200 copies/ml on 2 occasions in the 12 months prior to screening
  • Previous interruptions in cART
  • Previous virological failures defined by loss of virological suppression with the presence of resistant mutations
  • Haemoglobin (Hb \<12g/dL for males, \<11g/dL for females)
  • Concomitant or previous conditions that preclude injection of vaccines/infusion of monoclonal antibody and PML in the past
  • History of experimental vaccinations against HIV
  • Previous treatment with chemotherapy (except for chemotherapy injected into skin lesions for Kaposi's sarcoma)
  • Treatment with systemic corticoids or immuno-suppressive agents ongoing or in the 12 weeks prior to randomisation in the trial
  • Received natalizumab or rituximab ever in the past
  • Received a TNF blocker in the past 60 days
  • Administration of an inactivated vaccine within 30 days or a live vaccine within 60 days prior to randomisation
  • Presence of a skin condition or marking that precludes inspection of the injection/infusion site
  • History of cancer (except basal cellular skin carcinoma or Kaposi's sarcoma)
  • History of significant neurological disease or cardiovascular disease (angina, myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, stroke); participants with controlled blood pressure are eligible
  • History of clinical autoimmune disease
  • Ongoing diseases including uncontrolled active severe infection, cardiac, pulmonary (excluding mild asthma), thyroid, renal or neurological (peripheral or central) diseases
  • Active or latent tuberculosis (unless prophylaxis in past as per local practice) - (participant must be screened for tuberculosis before starting infusions, according to routine practice)
  • Presence of pathogenic bacteria or parasites in faeces at screening
  • Participating in another biomedical research study within 30 days of randomisation
  • Known hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine formulation used in this trial including eggs or have severe or multiple allergies to drugs or pharmaceutical agents, or any hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients of vedolizumab.
  • Liver disease including hepatitis B (surface antigen positive) or hepatitis C (antigen or PCR positive)
  • A clinically significant abnormality on ECG
  • Hypernatraemia or hyperchloraemia
  • History of severe local or general reaction to vaccination defined as
  • local: extensive, indurated redness and swelling involving most of the arm, not resolving within 72 hours
  • general: fever \>= 39.5oC within 48 hours; anaphylaxis; bronchospasm; laryngeal oedema; collapse; convulsions or encephalopathy within 72 hours
  • Grade 2 or worse routine laboratory parameters. Hyperbilirubinaemia to be considered an exclusion criterion only when confirmed to be conjugated bilirubinaemia

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 21 2022

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 12 2023

Estimated Enrollment :

2 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04120415

Start Date

June 21 2022

End Date

July 12 2023

Last Update

August 4 2023

Active Locations (4)

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Service Immunologie clinique et maladies infectieuses, Hôpital Henri Mondor

Paris, Creteil, France, 94010

2

Hotel Dieu

Paris, France, 75004

3

Centre d'Immunothérapie et Vaccinologie, CHUV

Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1011

4

St Stephens Centre, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital

London, United Kingdom, SW10 9NH