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ArticleAIDS research and human retroviruses2022

Drug Resistance, Rather than Low Tenofovir Levels in Blood or Urine, Is Associated with Tenofovir, Emtricitabine, and Efavirenz Failure in Resource-Limited Settings.

Lauren Jennings, Tracy Kellermann, Matthew Spinelli, Zukiswa Nkantsu, Dolphina Cogill, Marije van Schalkwyk, Eric Decloedt, Gert van Zyl, Catherine Orrell, Monica Gandhi

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Article in AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Real-Time Urine Tenofovir Assay Improves Drug Adherence Among People With HIV With Prior Virologic Failure in a Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
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  2. Incentivizing adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: a randomized pilot trial among male sex workers in Mexico.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Lauren JenningsDesmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Tracy KellermannDivision of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Matthew SpinelliDivision of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6368-8664
Zukiswa NkantsuDesmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dolphina CogillDesmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Marije van SchalkwykDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Eric DecloedtDivision of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Gert van ZylDivision of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.
Catherine OrrellDesmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Monica GandhiDivision of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7025-1994
Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation · ZAStellenbosch University · ZASan Francisco General Hospital · USNational Health Laboratory Service · ZA

Funding

Randomized Trial to Optimize Virologic Suppression Rates Using a Point-of-Care Urine Monitoring Assay (ROVING-PUMA)R01AI143340 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Monica Gandhi · 2018 to 2026
$5.6M
Urine tenofovir point-of-care test to identify patients in need of ART adherence supportR01AI152119 · NIAID · STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY · PI GANDHI, MONICA, ORRELL, CATHERINE · 2020 to 2024
$1.7M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high cost of viral load (VL) testing limits its use for antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence support. A low-cost lateral flow urine tenofovir (TFV) rapid assay predicts pre-exposure prophylaxis breakthroughs, but has not yet been investigated in HIV treatment. We therefore evaluated its utility in a pilot cross-sectional study of TFV-containing ART recipients at an increased risk of virologic failure (VF). Participants who had a treatment interruption ≥30 days or had ≥1 episode of viremia (VL ≥400 copies/mL) in the previous year were recruited from a public health setting in Cape Town, South Africa. Self-reported adherence data were collected, the urine TFV assay performed, and concurrent TFV-diphosphate analyzed in dried blood spots. VL testing was done concurrently and, if viremic, genotypic HIV drug resistance testing was performed. Of 48 participants, 18 (37.5%) had VL (>400 copies/mL) at the time of the study, including 16 of 39 receiving efavirenz (EFV), 2 of 6 receiving protease inhibitors, and 0 of 3 receiving dolutegravir. Resistance testing succeeded in 17/18, of which 14 had significant mutations compromising ≥2 agents of the current EFV-based regimen. Of these 14, all had detected urine TFV. Urine TFV was undetectable in two out of three without regimen-relevant resistance;

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Anti-HIV AgentsHIV InfectionsAlkynesBenzoxazinesCross-Sectional StudiesCyclopropanesDrug ResistanceEmtricitabineHumansSouth AfricaTenofovirViral LoadViremiaAlkynesAnti-HIV AgentsBenzoxazinesCyclopropanesefavirenzEmtricitabineTenofoviradherencepoint of carereal timeresistanceurine

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PMID34779228
PMCPMC9225825
OpenAlexW3212882417

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