A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of V114 Followed by PNEUMOVAX™23 in Adults Infected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (V114-018) (PNEU-WAY)

A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Active Comparator-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of V114 Followed by Administration of PNEUMOVAX™23 Eight Weeks Later in Adults Infected With HIV (PNEU-WAY)

This study is designed to 1) describe the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of V114 and Prevnar 13™ in pneumococcal vaccine-naïve adults infected with HIV and to 2) describe the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of PNEUMOVAX™23 when administered 8 weeks after receipt of either V114 or Prevnar 13™.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pneumococcal Infections
• Intervention / Treatment: Biological: V114; Biological: PNEUMOVAX™23; Biological: Prevnar 13™

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 302
• Phase: Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Clemont Ferrand, France, 63000
    • Hopital Gabriel Montpied ( Site 0084)
  • Paris, France, 75679
    • Hopital Cochin du Paris ( Site 0089)
  • Paris Cedex 10, France, 75475
    • Hopital Saint Louis ( Site 0094)
• Peru
  • Lima, Peru, 15001
    • Via Libre ( Site 0043)
  • Lima, Peru, 15046
    • Investigaciones Medicas en Salud - INMENSA ( Site 0041)
• South Africa
  • Soweto
    • Johannesburg, Soweto, South Africa, 1862
      • Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital ( Site 0122)
  • Western Cape
    • Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa, 7626
      • Be Part Yoluntu Centre ( Site 0123)
• Thailand
  • Bangkok, Thailand, 10700
    • Siriraj Hosp (Prev&Social Med). ( Site 0183)
  • Chiang Mai, Thailand, 50200
    • Research Institute for Health. ( Site 0182)
• United States
  • Florida
    • Orlando, Florida, United States, 32806
      • Bliss Healthcare Services ( Site 0010)
    • West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, 33407
      • Triple O Research Institute, P.A. ( Site 0011)
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77060
      • Saint Hope Foundation, Inc. ( Site 0009)
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77098
      • The Crofoot Research Center, Inc. ( Site 0002)

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Cluster of Differentiation 4+ (CD4+) cell count ≥50 cells/µL and plasma HIV ribonucleic acid (RNA) <50,000 copies/mL
• Receiving combination anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for at least 6 weeks before enrollment with no intention of changing therapy for 3 months after randomization
• Female participant: not pregnant, not breastfeeding and 1) not of childbearing potential, or 2) of childbearing potential and agrees to practice contraception through 6 weeks after administration of study vaccine.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of opportunistic infections within 12 months before the first study vaccination
• History of non-infectious acquired immune deficiency syndrome-related illness such as Kaposi's sarcoma, wasting syndrome, or HIV-associated nephropathy
• History of invasive pneumococcal disease
• Known hypersensitivity to any vaccine component
• Known or suspected congenital immunodeficiency, functional or anatomic asplenia, or history of autoimmune disease
• Coagulation disorder contraindicating intramuscular vaccination
• History of malignancy ≤5 years before enrollment, except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or in situ cervical cancer
• Female participant: positive urine or serum pregnancy test
• Prior administration of any pneumococcal vaccine
• Received systemic corticosteroids for ≥14 consecutive days and have not completed within 30 days of enrollment
• Received immunosuppressive therapy
• Received a blood transfusion or blood products within 6 months of enrollment
• Participated in another clinical study of an investigational product within 2 months of enrollment
• Current user of recreational or illicit drugs or recent history of drug or alcohol abuse or dependence.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: V114; Participants will receive a single 0.5 mL intramuscular (IM) injection of V114 on Day 1 (Vaccination 1) and a single 0.5 mL IM injection of PNEUMOVAX™23 at Week 8 (Vaccination 2)	Biological: V114; 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine with serotypes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, 19A, 22F, 23F, 33F (2 mcg each), serotype 6B (4 mcg) and Merck Aluminum Phosphate Adjuvant (125 mcg) in each 0.5 mL dose; Biological: PNEUMOVAX™23; 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with serotypes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 8, 9N, 9V, 10A, 11A, 12F, 14, 15B, 17F, 18C, 19F, 19A, 20, 22F, 23F, 33F (25 mcg each) in each 0.5 mL dose
Active Comparator: Prevnar 13™; Participants will receive a single 0.5 mL IM injection of Prevnar 13™ on Day 1 (Vaccination 1) and a single 0.5 mL IM injection of PNEUMOVAX™23 at Week 8 (Vaccination 2)	Biological: PNEUMOVAX™23; 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with serotypes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 8, 9N, 9V, 10A, 11A, 12F, 14, 15B, 17F, 18C, 19F, 19A, 20, 22F, 23F, 33F (25 mcg each) in each 0.5 mL dose; Biological: Prevnar 13™; 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine with serotypes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, 23F (2.2 mcg) and 6B (4.4 mcg) in each 0.5 ml dose

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Percentage of Participants With a Solicited Injection-site Adverse Event After Vaccination 1	An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study treatment, whether or not considered related to the study treatment. Solicited injection-site AEs consist of redness/erythema, swelling, and tenderness/pain. The 95% confidence interval (CI) were based on the exact binomial method proposed by Clopper and Pearson.	Up to 5 days after Vaccination 1 (Up to Day 5)
Percentage of Participants With a Solicited Systemic Adverse Event After Vaccination 1	An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study treatment, whether or not considered related to the study treatment. Solicited systemic AEs consist of muscle pain (myalgia), joint pain (arthralgia), headache, and tiredness (fatigue). The 95% CI were based on the exact binomial method proposed by Clopper and Pearson.	Up to 14 days after Vaccination 1 (Up to Day 14)
Percentage of Participants With a Vaccine-related Serious Adverse Event After Vaccination 1	A serious adverse event (SAE) is an AE that is life-threatening, requires or prolongs an existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, is a congenital anomaly or birth defect, or is another important medical event deemed such by medical or scientific judgment. Relatedness of an SAE to the study vaccine is determined by the investigator. The 95% CI were based on the exact binomial method proposed by Clopper and Pearson.	Day 1 up to 8 weeks after Vaccination 1 (Up to Week 8)
Geometric Mean Titer (GMT) of Serotype-specific Opsonophagocytic Activity (OPA) After Vaccination 1	Opsonization of pneumococci for phagocytosis is an important mechanism by which antibodies to polysaccharides protect against disease in vivo. Sera from participants was used to measure geometric mean titer (GMT) of 13 serotypes (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, and 23F) included in V114 and Prevnar 13™; and two serotypes (22F and 33F) which are unique to V114, using the Multiplexed Opsonophagocytic Assay (MOPA). This assay reads the reciprocal of the highest dilution (1/dil) that gives ≥50% bacterial killing, as determined by comparison to assay background controls. The 95% CIs were derived by exponentiating the CIs of the mean of the natural log values based on the t-distribution.	Day 30
Geometric Mean Concentration of Serotype-specific Immunoglobulin G (IgG) After Vaccination 1	The geometric mean concentration of IgG serotype-specific antibodies to the 13 pneumococcal polysaccharide serotypes (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, and 23F) contained in V114 and Prevnar 13™; and two serotypes (22F and 33F) which are unique to V114, were quantitated from participants' sera by multiplex electrochemiluminescence (ECL) using the pneumococcal electrochemiluminescence (PnECL) v2.0 assay, based on the Meso-Scale Discovery technology, which employs disposable multi-spot microtiter plates. The 95% CIs were derived by exponentiating the CIs of the mean of the natural log values based on the t-distribution.	Day 30

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Percentage of Participants With a Solicited Injection-site Adverse Event After Vaccination 2	An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study treatment, whether or not considered related to the study treatment. Solicited injection-site AEs consist of redness/erythema, swelling, and tenderness/pain. The 95% CI were based on the exact binomial method proposed by Clopper and Pearson.	Up to 5 days after Vaccination 2 (Up to Day 61)
Percentage of Participants With a Solicited Systemic Adverse Event After Vaccination 2	An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study treatment, whether or not considered related to the study treatment. Solicited systemic AEs consist of muscle pain (myalgia), joint pain (arthralgia), headache, and tiredness (fatigue). The 95% CI were based on the exact binomial method proposed by Clopper and Pearson.	Up to 14 days after Vaccination 2 (Up to Day 70)
Percentage of Participants With a Vaccine-related Serious Adverse Event After Vaccination 2	A serious adverse event (SAE) is an AE that is life-threatening, requires or prolongs an existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, is a congenital anomaly or birth defect, or is another important medical event deemed such by medical or scientific judgment. Relatedness of an SAE to the study vaccine is determined by the investigator. The 95% CI were based on the exact binomial method proposed by Clopper and Pearson.	From Week 8 up to Month 6
Geometric Mean Titer of Serotype-specific OPA After Vaccination 2	Opsonization of pneumococci for phagocytosis is an important mechanism by which antibodies to polysaccharides protect against disease in vivo. Sera from participants was used to measure GMT of 13 serotypes (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, and 23F) included in V114 and Prevnar 13™; and two serotypes (22F and 33F) which are unique to V114, using the MOPA. The MOPA reads the reciprocal of the highest dilution (1/dil) that gives ≥50% bacterial killing, as determined by comparison to assay background controls. The 95% CIs were derived by exponentiating the CIs of the mean of the natural log values based on the t-distribution.	Week 12
Geometric Mean Concentration of Serotype-specific IgG After Vaccination 2	The geometric mean concentration of IgG serotype-specific antibodies to the 13 pneumococcal polysaccharide serotypes (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, and 23F) contained in V114 and Prevnar 13™ ; and two serotypes (22F and 33F) which are unique to V114, were quantitated from participants' sera by multiplex ECL using the PnECL v2.0 assay, based on the Meso-Scale Discovery technology, which employs disposable multi-spot microtiter plates. The 95% CIs were derived by exponentiating the CIs of the mean of the natural log values based on the t-distribution.	Week 12

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Mohapi L, Pinedo Y, Osiyemi O, Supparatpinyo K, Ratanasuwan W, Molina JM, Dagan R, Tamms G, Sterling T, Zhang Y, Pedley A, Hartzel J, Kan Y, Hurtado K, Musey L, Simon JK, Buchwald UK; V114-018 (PNEU-WAY) study group. Safety and immunogenicity of V114, a 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, in adults living with HIV. AIDS. 2022 Mar 1;36(3):373-382. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003126.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 6, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 16, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): January 17, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 22, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 22, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): March 29, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 5, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 13, 2022
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, 15-valent, 22F, 33F
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Infections; Bacterial Infections; Bacterial Infections and Mycoses; Streptococcal Infections; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections; Pneumococcal Infections; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Immunologic Factors; Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
• Other Study ID Numbers: V114-018 (Other Identifier: Merck Protocol Number); 2017-001909-32 (EudraCT Number)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: http://engagezone.msd.com/doc/ProcedureAccessClinicalTrialData.pdf

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No