NCT02259127CompletedPhase 2/3
ODYSSEY (PENTA 20)
A Randomised Trial of Dolutegravir (DTG)-Based Antiretroviral Therapy vs. Standard of Care (SOC) in Children With HIV Infection Starting First-line or Switching to Second-line ART
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
A new anti-HIV medicine (Dolutegravir) combined with 2 currently used anti-HIV medicines is non-inferior to the standard combination of medicines used in terms of efficacy and better in terms of toxicity.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2/3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 792 (actual)
- First submitted
- 30 Sept 2014
- Start date
- 20 Sept 2016
- Primary completion date
- 2 Mar 2021
- Lead sponsor
- PENTA Foundation
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT02259127
- EudraCT number
- 2014-002632-14
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
- Participants enrolled: 792
- From 20 Sept 2016 to the primary completion date, 2 Mar 2021
- 28 sites in 8 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Evidence of lack of susceptibility to integrase inhibitors or more than a 2-week exposure to antiretrovirals of this class
Other illness
- History or presence of known allergy or contraindications to dolutegravir
- History or presence of known allergy or contraindications to proposed available NRTI backbone or proposed available SOC third agent.
- Patients with severe hepatic impairment or unstable liver disease (as defined by the presence of ascites, encephalopathy, coagulopathy, hypoalbuminaemia, oesophageal or gastric varices, or persistent jaundice), known biliary abnormalities (with the exception of Gilbert's syndrome or asymptomatic gallstones)
- Anticipated need for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy during the study
Lab values
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≥ 5 times the upper limit of normal, OR ALT ≥3x upper limit of normal and bilirubin ≥2x upper limit of normal
Other
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
Who the study is looking for
- ALL PATIENTS:
- Children ≥28 days and \<18 years weighing ≥3kg with confirmed HIV-1 infection
- Parents/carers and children, where applicable, give informed written consent
- Girls aged 12 years or older who have reached menses must have a negative pregnancy test at screening and be willing to adhere to effective methods of contraception if sexually active
- Children with co-infections who need to start ART can be enrolled into ODYSSEY according to local/national guidelines
- Parents/carers and children, where applicable, willing to adhere to a minimum of 96 weeks' follow-up
- Children weighing 3 to \<14kg must be eligible and willing to participate in the Weight band (WB)-Pharmacokinetics (PK)1 substudy unless direct enrolment for the child's weight band has opened following the WB-PK1 substudy and/or dosing information has become available from the IMPAACT P1093 DTG dose-finding study.
- ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR ODYSSEY A:
- Planning to start first-line ART
- ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR ODYSSEY B:
- Planning to start second-line ART defined as either: (i) switch of at least 2 ART drugs due to treatment failure; or (ii) switch of only the third agent due to treatment failure where drug sensitivity tests show no mutations conferring Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NRTI) resistance
- Treated with only one previous ART regimen. Single drug substitutions for toxicity, simplification, changes in national guidelines or drug availability are allowed
- At least one NRTI with predicted preserved activity available for a background regimen
- In settings where resistance tests are routinely available, at least one new active NRTI from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, abacavir or zidovudine should have preserved activity based on cumulative results of resistance tests
- In settings where resistance tests are not routinely available, children who are due to switch according to national guidelines should have at least one new NRTI predicted to be available from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, abacavir or zidovudine
- Viral load ≥ 500 c/ml at screening visit
Age in the registry: 28 days to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (28)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universitata Frankfurt Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Frankfurt | Germany | Unknown status |
| UkE Eppendorf Hamburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Unknown status |
| Hospital San Joan de Defu Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital 12 de Octubre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital La Paz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Leeds General Infirmary Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leeds | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Leicester Royal Infirmary Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Kings College Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Great Ormand Street Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| St Mary's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Centro Materno-Infantil de Norte Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Porto | Portugal | Unknown status |
| Prapokklao Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chanthaburi | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Nakornping Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chiang Mai | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chiang Rai | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Khon Kaen Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Khon Kaen | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Mahasarakam Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Maha Sarakham | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Phayao Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Phayao | Thailand | Unknown status |
| JCRC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kampala | Uganda | Unknown status |
| MUJHU Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kampala | Uganda | Unknown status |
| Baylor Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kampala | Uganda | Unknown status |
| JCRC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mbarara | Uganda | Unknown status |
| King Edward VIII Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durban | South Africa | Unknown status |
| Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hlabisa | South Africa | Unknown status |
| PHRU Klerksdorp Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Klerksdorp | South Africa | Unknown status |
| Kid-Cru Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Parow | South Africa | Unknown status |
| PHRU Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Soweto | South Africa | Unknown status |
| UZCRC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Harare | Zimbabwe | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Weight gain, body composition, and metabolic parameters of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy versus standard of care in children and adolescents: an ancillary analysis of the ODYSSEY trial.Lancet Child Adolesc Health · 2026 · PMID 41579881
- Effect of dolutegravir on folate, vitamin B12 and mean corpuscular volume levels among children and adolescents with HIV: a sub-study of the ODYSSEY randomized controlled trial.J Int AIDS Soc · 2023 · PMID 37766505
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