HIV cocktail aims to free patients from daily pills
NCT ID NCT06805656
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Aug 20, 2026 · Updated 6 times
Summary
This phase 2 trial tests whether a mix of intensified antiretrovirals, a latency-reversing drug, an anti-proliferative drug, and a personalized vaccine can shrink the hidden HIV reservoir enough to allow people to stop their daily medication. The study will enroll 70 adults with well-controlled HIV. Researchers will monitor viral rebound and immune responses during a treatment interruption.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Maraviroc, Dolutegravir, Auranofin, Nicotinamide, and a personalized dendritic cell vaccine
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward a way for people with HIV to stay healthy without needing daily antiretroviral pills.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase trial (70 people) and previous attempts at HIV remission have failed. The combination approach is complex and may not work for everyone, or could cause side effects.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 70 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2026
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: \- \> 18 years old \< 65 years old Documented HIV-1 infection. Has voluntarily signed ICF. On HAART ≥ 2 years, without changes in the 24 weeks immediately prior to screening. HIV viral load \<50 copies/mL, and never \> 50 copies/mL on 2 consecutive occasions in the last 2 years. CD4 count nadir. \> 350 cells/ mm3 Current CD4 count \> 500 cells/ mm3. R5 HIV-1 at Screening as defined by proviral DNA genotropism. Exclusion Criteria: \- Any evidence of an active AIDS-defining condition. Any significant acute medical illness in the past 8 weeks. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Use of any of the following within 90 days prior to entry: systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy; investigational agents; immunomodulators (colonystimulating factors, growth factors, systemic corticosteroids, HIV vaccines, immune globulin, interleukins, interferons); coumadin, warfarin, or other coumadin derivative anticoagulants. Use of an agent definitely or possibly associated with effects on QT intervals: amiodarone, arsenic trioxide, astemizole, bepridil, chloroquine, chlorpromazine, cisapride, clarithromycin, disopyramide, dofetilide, domperidone, droperidol, erythromycin, halofantrine, haloperidol, ibutilide, levomethadyl, mesoridazine, methadone, pentamidine, pimozide, probucol, procainamide, quinidine, sotalol, sparfloxacin, terfenadine, thioridazine. Receipt of compounds with HDAC inhibitor-like activity, such as valproic acid or nicotinamide within the last 30 days. Potential participants may enroll after a 30-day washout period. Known hypersensitivity to the components of gold salt, nicotinamide or its analogs. Hepatitis B (HBsAg +) or Hepatitis C (HCV RNA +) infection. Known renal insufficiency defined as calculated creatinine clearance (Cockcroft Gault formula) \<60 mL/min. Subjects with a laboratory abnormality grade 3 or 4 with the following exceptions: pancreatic amylase, cholesterol, triglyceride, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, bilirubin. Any condition which, in the investigators opinion, could compromise the subject's safety or adherence to the trial protocol.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CCDI
RECRUITINGSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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