UK-CAB 37; Treatment as prevention

Friday 4 February 2011

Programme

09:30–10:00 Registration, refreshments and expenses
10:00–10:05 Welcome and UKCAB updates
10:05–10.30 Pre-Meeting for Gilead
10:30–11:30 iPrEX Trial design; statistical aspect of the results relating to the adherence data – Dr Colette Smith
11:30–11:40 Break
11:40–12:40 Science behind PrEP/Pharmacology Training; complexity of how drugs are absorbed and measured in different body compartments, and particularly for PrEP – Dr Steve Taylor, Heart of England NHS Trust, Birmingham
12:40–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Company meeting: Gilead
15.30–15.35 Break
15:35–16:00 UKCAB AOB
16.00 Close

Background reading

What happens to drugs in the body? (Fact sheet on pharmacokinetics)

http://i-base.info/ttfa/learning-resources/what-happens-when-you-take-a-drug

About iPrEX

http://www.globaliprex.com/Study.html

Treatment as prevention:

http://www.avert.org/hiv-treatment-as-prevention.htm

Many HIV Positive Women on Antiretroviral Therapy Have Detectable Virus in Genital Tract

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/recent/2010/1210_2010_b.html

Studies Look at Antiretroviral Drug Levels in Genital Fluids, Prospects for Use in Microbicides

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/2010_conference/croi/docs/0330_2010_a.html

AVAC’s resource page on PrEP, which will direct your attention to all sorts of reports and comment on the iPrEx trial and its implicaitons:
http://www.avac.org/ht/d/sp/i/3619/pid/3619

EATG’s report on an AVAC/EATG/NAM/EUROPRISE community advocates’ meeting in Brussels last September where the implications of PrEP were gone into in some detail
http://www.eatg.org/eatg/content/download/18873/146225/file/Meeting%20PrEP%20ECAB%20Final.pdf

Presentations from EATG meeting

http://www.eatg.org/eatg/Scientific-Research/Conferences/EATG-Community-Meeting-on-PrEP-R-D-priorities-September-25-2010-Brussels-Belgium

Aidsmap’s original news reports on iPrEx are at
http://www.aidsmap.com/Anti-HIV-drugs-prevent-HIV-infection-trial-shows-if-you-take-them/page/1553857/
and
http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1555342/

Useful articles on the problem of measuring and supporting adherence in prevention trials
http://aidsmap.com/news/Adherence-to-ARV-prevention-methods-is-challenging-partly-because-they-don-t-treat-illness/page/1438915/
and
http://aidsmap.com/Microbicides-2008-Will-adherence-issues-affect-all-the-first-generation-trials/page/1429752/ (from a few years ago, but still relevant).

Presentations from this meeting

iPrEX Trial Design; statistical aspect of the results relating to the adherence data [PDF, 120Kb]

- Dr Colette Smith, Royal Free Hospital

Genital Tract ART Implications for transmission 2010 [PowerPoint presentation, 6MB]

- Dr Steve Taylor, Heart of England NHS Trust

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Published: February 8, 2011
Last edited: February 8, 2011