Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28435691›Full record

ArticleJournal of virus eradication2017

Interrupting antiretroviral treatment in HIV cure research: scientific and ethical considerations.

Samual A Garner, Stuart Rennie, Jintanat Ananworanich, Karine Dube, David M Margolis, Jeremy Sugarman, Randall Tressler, Adam Gilbertson, Liza Dawson

Abstract readEditorial
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of virus eradication, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Trial
  4. Trial
  5. Trial
  6. Trial
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Article
  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Samual A GarnerWashington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Stuart RennieUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jintanat AnanworanichUS Military HIV Research Program, Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Karine DubeUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
David M MargolisSchool of Medicine and.
Jeremy SugarmanJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Randall Tressler
Adam GilbertsonUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Liza DawsonDivision of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology CoreP30AI050410 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVID M. MARGOLIS · 2001 to 2026
$76.9M
Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (CARE)UM1AI126619 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MARGOLIS, DAVID M. · 2016 to 2020
$23.2M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI050410NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI126619
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past several years there has been intense activity directed at the possibility of achieving remission or eradication of HIV infection. Current assays for the measurement of latent HIV are insufficient to demonstrate complete clearance of replication-competent HIV. Therefore, the ultimate test for assessing whether investigational interventions have resulted in HIV remission or eradication is to interrupt standard antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a carefully controlled clinical trial setting. These procedures, known as analytic treatment interruptions (ATIs), raise important scientific and ethical questions. The lack of definitive assays for measuring viral reservoirs not only makes research on HIV remission or cure challenging, it also affects the ability to assess risks from ATIs themselves. In spite of these challenges, basic ethical criteria can be met with careful study design and close monitoring. In this brief report we outline ethical standards for HIV cure research involving ATIs. These criteria should be revisited as the science evolves.

Identifiers

PMID28435691
PMCPMC5384270

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.