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Kimberly A Struble1, Kirk M Chan-Tack, Guoxing Greg Soon
1Office of New Drugs, Office of Antimicrobial Products, Division of Antiviral Products, US Food and Drug Administration, USA. Kimberly.struble@fda.hhs.gov
Purpose Of Review:
To provide a regulatory perspective on developing new HIV protease inhibitors. The present review highlights the risks and benefits of certain design aspects for studies in treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced patients, including timing of studies, study design options, choice of control arms, and duration of treatment.
Recent Findings:
The present review highlights published studies to illustrate the need for new therapies and highlights potential historical data to help design future HIV clinical trials better.
Summary:
New antiretroviral agents for patients with multidrug resistance, including safer, more convenient therapies without significant drug-drug interactions, are still needed for all patients. The goals of therapy have evolved and the expectation for treatment regimens is that the majority of patients, including treatment-experienced patients, will achieve undetectable HIV RNA. New study designs, particularly for treatment-experienced patients, are needed to help identify potential risks and benefits of new treatments.
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