Antiretroviral Treatment Taken 4 Days Per Week Versus Continuous Therapy 7/7 Days Per Week in HIV-1 Infected Patients (QUATUOR)

April 9, 2026 updated by: ANRS, Emerging Infectious Diseases

Randomized, Open-label and Multicentric Trial Evaluating the Non-inferiority of Antiretroviral Treatment Taken 4 Consecutive Days Per Week Versus Continuous Therapy 7/7 Days Per Week in HIV-1 Infected Patients With Controlled Viral Load Under Antiretroviral Therapy

The trial is an open-label, multicenter, prospective, randomized trial in 2 parallel groups, evaluating at W48, the non-inferiority of antiretroviral treatment taken 4 consecutive days a week versus continuous therapy, in HIV infected patients with controlled viral load for at least 12 months and stable antiretroviral treatment since 4 months.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Open-label, multicenter, prospective, randomized trial in 2 parallel groups, evaluating at W48, the non-inferiority of antiretroviral treatment taken 4 consecutive days a week versus continuous therapy, in HIV infected patients with controlled viral load for at least 12 months and stable antiretroviral treatment since 4 months. The non-inferiority margin (delta) is 5%. The randomization will be stratified according to the family of the third antiretroviral agent (II, PI, and NNRTI). A minimum of 200 patients will be included in the integrase inhibitor strata to provide a sufficient power to assess the efficacy of strategy in this population.

At W48, all patients with virological success in the continuous therapy group will switch to the 4/7 days therapy.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

640

Phase

  • Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Argenteuil, France, 95100
        • Centre Hospitalier Victor Dupouy
      • Avignon, France, 84000
        • Hôpital Henri Duffaut
      • Besançon, France, 25030
        • CHRU Jean Minjoz
      • Bobigny, France, 93000
        • Avicenne
      • Bondy, France, 93143
        • Jean Verdier
      • Bordeaux, France, 33076
        • Hôpital Pellegrin
      • Bordeaux, France, 33075
        • Hôpital Saint-André
      • Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 92104
        • Hôpital Ambroise Paré
      • Caen, France, 14033
        • Hôpital de la Côte de Nacre
      • Chartres, France, 28630
        • Hopital Louis Pasteur
      • Clamart, France, 92140
        • Antoine Beclère
      • Clermont-Ferrand, France, 63003
        • Hopital Gabriel Montpied
      • Corbeil-Essonnes, France, 91106
        • Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien
      • Créteil, France, 94010
        • Hôpital Henri Mondor
      • Créteil, France, 94010
        • CHI de Créteil
      • Dijon, France, 21079
        • Hôpital du Bocage
      • Garches, France, 92380
        • Hopital Raymond Poincare
      • Grenoble, France, 38043
        • Hôpital Michallon
      • La Roche-sur-Yon, France, 85295
        • CHD de la Roche Sur Yon
      • Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, 94275
        • BICETRE
      • Le Mans, France, 72037
        • Centre Hospitalier du Mans
      • Levallois-Perret, France, 92309
        • Institut hospitalier franco-britannique
      • Limoges, France, 87042
        • Hôpital Dupuytren
      • Lyon, France, 69437
        • Hopital Edouard Herriot
      • Lyon, France, 69000
        • Hôpital de La Croix Rousse
      • Marseille, France, 13274
        • Hôpital Sainte Marguerite
      • Marseille, France, 13331
        • Hopital Europeen
      • Montpellier, France, 34295
        • Hopital Gui de Chauliac
      • Mulhouse, France
        • Hôpital Emile Muller
      • Nantes, France, 44093
        • Hôpital de l'Hôtel Dieu
      • Nice, France, 06202
        • Hôpital de l'Archet
      • Nîmes, France, 30029
        • Hopital Caremeau
      • Orléans, France, 45100
        • Hôpital de la Source
      • Paris, France, 75012
        • Hôpital Saint-Antoine
      • Paris, France, 75908
        • Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
      • Paris, France, 75015
        • Hopital Necker
      • Paris, France, 75018
        • Hôpital Bichat
      • Paris, France, 75475
        • Hopital Saint-Louis
      • Paris, France, 75651
        • Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere
      • Paris, France, 75181
        • Hôpital de l'Hôtel Dieu
      • Paris, France, 75181
        • Hôtel-Dieu
      • Paris, France, 75475
        • Lariboisière
      • Paris, France, 75970
        • Tenon
      • Perpignan, France, 66046
        • Centre Hospitalier de Perpignan
      • Pontoise, France, 95301
        • Centre Hospitalier René Dubos
      • Pringy, France, 74374
        • Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois
      • Reims, France, 51100
        • Hôpital Robert Debré
      • Rennes, France, 35033
        • Hôpital Pontchaillou
      • Saint-Brieuc, France, 22000
        • Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Brieuc
      • Saint-Denis, France, 93205
        • Hopital DELAFONTAINE
      • Saint-Etienne, France, 42055
        • Hopital Nord
      • Saint-Nazaire, France, 44600
        • Centre Hospitalier Général de Saint Nazaire
      • Strasbourg, France, 67091
        • Hôpital Civil
      • Suresnes, France, 92151
        • Hopital Foch
      • Toulouse, France, 31059
        • Hopital Purpan
      • Toulouse, France, 31059
        • Hôpital La Grave
      • Tourcoing, France, 59208
        • Hôpital Gustave Dron
      • Tours, France, 37044
        • Hopital Bretonneau
      • Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France, 54511
        • Hôpital de Brabois
      • Versailles, France, 78157
        • Hopital Andre Mignot
      • Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France, 94195
        • Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal
    • Guadeloupe
      • Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, France, 97159
        • CHU Pointe-à-Pitre
    • Martinique
      • Fort-de-France, Martinique, France, 97261
        • Hôpital La Meynard Zobda Quitman

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • HIV-1 infection, coinfection HIV-1/HIV-2 possible
  • Age≥18 years old
  • Current therapy unchanged for the last 4 months
  • Receiving tritherapy with 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor+protease inhibitors or 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor+non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors or 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor+integrase inhibitors.

Allowed treatment drugs are :

1. nucleoside analogs : tenofovir (TDF ou TAF), emtricitabine, abacavir, lamivudine 2. protease inhibitors : lopinavir/r, darunavir/r ou atazanavir/r 3. Non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors : efavirenz, rilpivirine ou etravirine 4. integrase inhibitors : dolutegravir, elvitegravir/cobicistat ou raltegravir

  • Viruses susceptible to all antiretroviral drugs present in the ongoing tritherapy (AC11-ANRS algorithm).

    1. If a genotype is available in the patient medical history; viruses must be susceptible to all ongoing antiretroviral drugs
    2. If no RNA genotype available, a genotype will be performed on DNA at screening and will not have to show any resistance to the ongoing antiretroviral drugs
  • Viral load (VL) < 50 cp/mL in the past year, with at least 3 VL measurements including screening; only one episode of viral blip < 200 copies/mL is authorized in the last year
  • CD4 T cells > 250/mm3 at the screening visit
  • Estimated glomerular filtration rate > 60 mL/min (Chronic Kidney Disease - Epidemiology Collaboration method)
  • Transaminases : aspartate aminotransférase et alanine aminotransférase < 3N
  • Haemoglobin > 10 g/dL
  • Platelets > 100 000/mm3
  • For women of childbearing age, negative pregnancy test at screening; agree to use mechanical contraception during the study
  • Social security system coverage
  • Informed consent form signed by patient and investigator

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Infection by HIV-2
  • Chronic and active Viral B Hepatitis with positive antigen HBs
  • Chronic and active Viral C Hepatitis with treatment expected in the next 98 weeks
  • Concomitant treatment using interferon, interleukins, any other immune-therapy or chemotherapy, antivitaminK for patients on ARVT using a booster
  • Concomitant prophylactic or curative treatment for an opportunistic infection
  • All conditions (use of alcohol, drugs, etc.) judged by the investigator to possibly interfere with study protocol compliance, observance and/or study treatment tolerance
  • Pregnant or breast feeding women
  • Subjects under "sauvegarde de justice" (judicial protection due to temporarily and slightly diminished mental or physical faculties), or under legal guardianship

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: 4 days / 7
Patients included in this arm will take their ARV treatment 4 consecutive days per week during 98 weeks

• Receiving tritherapy. Allowed treatment drugs are :

  1. nucleoside analogs : tenofovir (TDF ou TAF), emtricitabine, abacavir, lamivudine
  2. protease inhibitors : lopinavir/r, darunavir/r ou atazanavir/r
  3. non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors : efavirenz, rilpivirine ou etravirine
  4. integrase inhibitors : dolutegravir, elvitegravir/cobicistat ou raltegravir
Active Comparator: 7 days / 7
Patients included in this arm will continue their ARV therapy 7 days per weeks during 48 weeks and after W48, they will take their ARV treatment 4 days per week until W98

• Receiving tritherapy. Allowed treatment drugs are :

  1. nucleoside analogs : tenofovir (TDF ou TAF), emtricitabine, abacavir, lamivudine
  2. protease inhibitors : lopinavir/r, darunavir/r ou atazanavir/r
  3. non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors : efavirenz, rilpivirine ou etravirine
  4. integrase inhibitors : dolutegravir, elvitegravir/cobicistat ou raltegravir

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Proportion of patients with therapeutic success at Week 48.
Time Frame: Week 48

To evaluate after 48 weeks the therapeutic success of a weekly strategy of 4 consecutive days on treatment followed by 3 days off treatment, defined by :

  • absence of virological failure : a measure of the viral load will be done, this measure have to be < 50 cp/mL. If it's > 50 cp/mL, a second measure will be done at 2 to 4 weeks apart. If it's still > 50 cp/mL, it's a virological failure
  • no discontinuation or modification of the study strategy for more than 30 consecutive days.
Week 48

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Proportion of patients with therapeutic success at Week 96
Time Frame: Week 96

To evaluate after 96 weeks the therapeutic success of a weekly strategy of 4 consecutive days on treatment followed by 3 days off treatment, defined by :

  • absence of virological failure : a measure of the viral load will be done, this measure have to be < 50 cp/mL. If it's > 50 cp/mL, a second measure will be done at 2 to 4 weeks apart. If it's still > 50 cp/mL, it's a virological failure
  • no discontinuation or modification of the study strategy for more than 30 consecutive days.
Week 96
Virological success
Time Frame: Week 48 and Week 96
The HIV-1 viral load at week 48 must be inferior to 50 copies/mL
Week 48 and Week 96
Number of virological " blips "
Time Frame: between Week 0 and Week 48, and between Week 0 and Week 96
viral load > 50 copies/mL followed by a control value ≤ 50 cp/mL
between Week 0 and Week 48, and between Week 0 and Week 96
Percentage of patients with a viral load signal detected
Time Frame: between Week 0 and Week 48 and Week 0 and Week 96
(subgroup of patients tested with Roche-Taqman, threshold<20 copies/mL)
between Week 0 and Week 48 and Week 0 and Week 96
Proportion of patients with acquisition of drugs resistance mutations in case of virological failure detected by Sanger and by next generation sequencing
Time Frame: Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84, Week 96 (if it's necessary)
Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84, Week 96 (if it's necessary)
Frequency of minority resistant variants archived in DNA at Week 0 and their impact on virological failure (2 consecutive VL> 50 copies / mL) and on the acquisition of drugs resistance mutations
Time Frame: Week 0
Week 0
Evolution of ultra sensitive viral load and total DNA in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells at Week 0, Week 24, Week 48 and Week 96; evolution of viral genotypic sequence between Week 0, Week 48 and Week 96 (subgroup of 120 patients)
Time Frame: between Week 0, Week 48 and Week 96
Immuno-viro-pharmacological sub-study of 120 patients
between Week 0, Week 48 and Week 96
Description of the factors associated with virological rebound (viral load >50 cp/mL).
Time Frame: Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84, Week 96 (if it's necessary)
(viral load >50 cp/mL).
Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84, Week 96 (if it's necessary)
Evolution of T cluster of differentiation 4 and cluster of differentiation 8 cells count, and T cluster of differentiation 4 /cluster of differentiation 8 ratio
Time Frame: from Week-4 to Week 48 and Week 96
Measurement of T cluster of differentiation 4 cell count, T cluster of differentiation 8 cell count, and T cluster of differentiation 4 /T cluster of differentiation 8 ratio
from Week-4 to Week 48 and Week 96
Evolution of fasting metabolic parameters
Time Frame: until Week 48 and Week 96
Measurement of total cholesterol total, LDL-C, HDL-C, Triglycerides and glycemia
until Week 48 and Week 96
Evolution of inflammation and immune activation parameters
Time Frame: from Week 0 to Week 24 and Week 48
Measurement of sCD14, sCD163, IP-10, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 et D-dimerus, soluble TNF receptor 1, soluble TNF receptor 2 Immuno-viro-Pharmacological Sub-study in 120 patients
from Week 0 to Week 24 and Week 48
HIV RNA viral load in semen
Time Frame: Week 0, Week 24 and Week 48
Sperm sub-study (120 patients)
Week 0, Week 24 and Week 48
Residual plasmatic concentrations of the third antiretroviral agent
Time Frame: Week 0, Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84 and Week 96
Measurement of the third antiretroviral agent plasmatic concentration (protease inhibitors or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors or integrase inhibitors)
Week 0, Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84 and Week 96
Residual plasmatic concentrations of tenofovir (TDF or TAF)
Time Frame: Week 0, Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84 and Week 96
Measurement of tenofovir plasmatic concentration
Week 0, Week 4, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60, Week 72, Week 84 and Week 96
Residual intracellular concentrations of the third antiretroviral agents
Time Frame: Week 0, Week 24 and Week 48
Immuno-viro-Pharmacological sub-study (120 patients) Measurement of the third antiretroviral agent intracellular concentration (protease inhibitors or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors or integrase inhibitors)
Week 0, Week 24 and Week 48
Treatment adherence
Time Frame: Week 0, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 72,and Week 96
Evaluation by a self-reported questionnaire
Week 0, Week 12, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 72,and Week 96
Patient satisfaction
Time Frame: Week 0, Week 12, Week 48 and Week 96
Evaluation by a self-reported questionnaire
Week 0, Week 12, Week 48 and Week 96
Pharmaco-economic aspects of the strategy
Time Frame: Between Week 0 and Week 98
Assessment and comparison of cost essay between each arm.
Between Week 0 and Week 98
Median time to virologic failure
Time Frame: Between week 0 and 98
Measure the delay between week 0 and the date of different virologic failure
Between week 0 and 98
Frequency of grade 3 or more adverse events, adverse effects, drug-modifying adverse events, drug-related adverse events and serious adverse events (SAE)
Time Frame: Between Week 0 and Week 98
according to the sponsor's grading scale
Between Week 0 and Week 98
Patient Quality of life
Time Frame: Week-4, Week 0, Week 48 and Week 96
Evaluation by a self-reported questionnaire
Week-4, Week 0, Week 48 and Week 96

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Collaborators

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Pierre De Truchis, MD, Hopital Raymond Poincare

Publications and helpful links

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 7, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 6, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

March 2, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 9, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 17, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

August 22, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 13, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 9, 2026

Last Verified

August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • ANRS 170 - QUATUOR
  • 2017-000040-17 (EudraCT Number)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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