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NCT Number: NCT04925752

Study of Lenacapavir for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in People Who Are at Risk for HIV Infection

The goal of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of the study drugs, lenacapavir (LEN) in preventing HIV infection, in participants ≥ 16 years of age who have condomless receptive anal sex with partners assigned male at birth and are at risk for HIV-1 infection.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of LEN for HIV-1 PrEP in participants ≥ 16 years of age who have condomless receptive anal sex with partners assigned male at birth at risk of HIV-1 infection.

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Key information

Age range

16 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

Fundacion Huesped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Key Inclusion Criteria:

Incidence Phase

  • CGM, TGW, TGM, and GNB who have condomless receptive anal sex with partners assigned male at birth and are at risk for HIV infection.
  • HIV-1 status unknown at screening and no prior HIV-1 testing within the last 3 months.
  • Sexually active with ≥ 1 partner assigned male at birth (condomless receptive anal sex) in the last 12 months and 1 of the following:
  • Condomless receptive anal sex with ≥ 2 partners in the last 12 weeks.
  • History of syphilis, rectal gonorrhea, or rectal chlamydia in the last 24 weeks.
  • Self-reported use of stimulants with sex in the last 12 weeks.

Randomized Phase

  • Negative local rapid fourth generation HIV-1/2 Ab/Ag, central fourth generation HIV-1/2 Ab/Ag, and HIV-1 RNA quantitative nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT).
  • Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥ 60 mL/min at screening according to the Cockcroft-Gault formula for creatinine clearance (CLcr).

Key Exclusion Criteria:

Incidence Phase

  • Prior use of HIV PrEP (including F/TDF or F/TAF) or HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) in the past 12 weeks or any prior use of long-acting systemic PrEP (including cabotegravir or islatravir).
  • Prior recipient of an HIV vaccine or HIV broadly neutralizing antibody formulation.

Randomized Phase

  • Acute viral hepatitis A, B or C or evidence of chronic hepatitis B or C infection.
  • Severe hepatic impairment or a history of or current clinical decompensated liver cirrhosis.

Note: Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply.

Treatment and study plan

Oral Lenacapavir (LEN)

Drug

Tablets administered orally without regard to food

Other names: GS-6207

F/TDF

Drug

Tablets administered orally

Other names: Truvada®

Sub-cutaneous (SC) Lenacapavir (LEN)

Drug

Administered via SC injections

Other names: GS-6207; Yeztugo

Placebo SC LEN

Drug

Administered via SC injections

PTM F/TDF

Drug

Tablets administered orally

PTM Oral LEN

Drug

Tablets administered orally

F/TAF (for US participants only)

Drug

F/TAF tablets administered orally once daily

Other names: Descovy

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence Phase: Recent Infection Testing Algorithm (RITA) Estimate of the Background Human Immunodeficiency-1 Virus Infection Incidence Rate (bHIV) Per 100 Person Years (PY)

    Time frame: Incidence Phase Screening Visit (Day 1)

    bHIV per 100 PY in the Incidence Phase was calculated using RITA. The RITA incorporated HIV-1 testing results and recency assay testing results to estimate the bHIV. Recency assay testing was performed for participants in the All Screened Set found to have HIV-1 infection at the Incidence Phase Screening Visit as defined below. Participants were considered to have recent HIV-1 infection if the normalized optical density (ODn) was below 1.5 threshold using the Sedia limiting antigen avidity enzyme immunoassay (LAg-EIA) and the HIV-1 RNA (viral load) was > 75 copies/mL of blood.

    HIV-1 infection was defined as participants having at least one of the following central lab results at the Incidence Phase screening visit:

    • Positive HIV-1/2 differentiation Ab, OR
    • Positive HIV-1 ribonucleic acid (RNA) qualitative test, OR
    • HIV-1 RNA quantitative test ≥200 copies/mL.
  2. Randomized Blinded Phase: HIV-1 Incidence Reported Per 100 PY for LEN Compared to Background HIV (bHIV, Participants in All Screened Set)

    Time frame: Up to 149 weeks

    HIV-1 incidence per 100 PY for LEN was calculated as the number of participants who acquired HIV-1 divided by the total of a) for participants not diagnosed with HIV-1, sum of all duration of follow-up time in years, while at risk of HIV-1 infection (where a year is 365.25 days) and b) for participants diagnosed with HIV-1, sum of all duration of follow-up time up to confirmed HIV-1 diagnoses. HIV-1 diagnosis was determined by an HIV adjudication committee who reviewed potential HIV-1 infection events in the randomized participants. The committee, in a blinded, consistent, and unbiased manner, determined whether HIV test results confirmed HIV-1 infection and determined the date of diagnosis for each case, defined as the date of the earliest study visit with evidence of HIV infection considering both prospective HIV testing and back-testing of archived samples. bHIV incidence per 100 PY in All Screened Set was estimated as described in outcome measure#1.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Randomized Blinded Phase: HIV-1 Incidence Reported Per 100 PY for LEN Compared to F/TDF

    Time frame: Up to 149 weeks

    HIV-1 incidence per 100 PY was calculated as the number of participants who acquired HIV-1 divided by the total of a) for participants not diagnosed with HIV-1, sum of all duration of follow-up time in years, while at risk of HIV-1 infection (where a year is 365.25 days) and b) for participants diagnosed with HIV-1, sum of all duration of follow-up time up to confirmed HIV-1 diagnoses. HIV-1 diagnosis was determined by an HIV adjudication committee who reviewed potential HIV-1 infection events in the randomized participants. The committee, in a blinded, consistent, and unbiased manner, determined whether HIV test results confirmed HIV-1 infection and determined the date of diagnosis for each case, defined as the date of the earliest study visit with evidence of HIV infection considering both prospective HIV testing and back-testing of archived samples.

  2. Randomized Blinded Phase: HIV-1 Incidence Among Participants Adherent to LEN

    Time frame: Up to 149 weeks

    A participant was defined as adherent to LEN if they have received all per-protocol administrations of LEN within 28 weeks since the previous administration. The incidence of HIV-1 infection per 100 PY calculation is defined in outcome measure #2.

  3. Percentage of Participants Experiencing Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)

    Time frame: Up to 4 years

    TEAEs were defined as 1 or both of the following:

    Any adverse events (AEs) leading to premature discontinuation of study drug, or Any AEs with an onset date on or after the study drug start date and no later than the last exposure date after permanent discontinuation of the study drug.

    An AE was any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant administered a study drug that did not necessarily have a causal relationship with the treatment.

  4. Percentage of Participants Experiencing Clinically Significant Laboratory Abnormalities

    Time frame: Up to 4 years

    Treatment-emergent laboratory abnormalities were defined as values that increased at least 1 toxicity grade from baseline at any post-baseline visit, up to and including the last exposure date for participants who permanently discontinued study drug, or the last available date in the database snapshot for participants who were still on treatment at the time of an analysis.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Gilead Sciences

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Phase 3, Double-Blind, Multicenter, Randomized Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Twice Yearly Long-Acting Lenacapavir for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Cisgender Men, Transgender Women, Transgender Men, and Gender Nonbinary People ≥ 16 Years of Age Who Have Sex With Male Partners and Are at Risk for HIV Infection

Acronym: PURPOSE 2

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2028
First posted
Jun 14, 2021
Registry last updated
Dec 23, 2025

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