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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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (28)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Universitata Frankfurt
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FrankfurtGermanyUnknown status
UkE Eppendorf Hamburg
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HamburgGermanyUnknown status
Hospital San Joan de Defu
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BarcelonaSpainUnknown status
Hospital 12 de Octubre
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MadridSpainUnknown status
Hospital La Paz
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MadridSpainUnknown status
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
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BirminghamUnited KingdomUnknown status
Leeds General Infirmary
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LeedsUnited KingdomUnknown status
Leicester Royal Infirmary
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LeicesterUnited KingdomUnknown status
Kings College Hospital
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LondonUnited KingdomUnknown status
Great Ormand Street Hospital
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LondonUnited KingdomUnknown status
St Mary's Hospital
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LondonUnited KingdomUnknown status
Centro Materno-Infantil de Norte
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PortoPortugalUnknown status
Prapokklao Hospital
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ChanthaburiThailandUnknown status
Nakornping Hospital
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Chiang MaiThailandUnknown status
Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital
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Chiang RaiThailandUnknown status
Khon Kaen Hospital
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Khon KaenThailandUnknown status
Mahasarakam Hospital
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Maha SarakhamThailandUnknown status
Phayao Hospital
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PhayaoThailandUnknown status
JCRC
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KampalaUgandaUnknown status
MUJHU
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KampalaUgandaUnknown status
Baylor
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KampalaUgandaUnknown status
JCRC
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MbararaUgandaUnknown status
King Edward VIII Hospital
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DurbanSouth AfricaUnknown status
Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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HlabisaSouth AfricaUnknown status
PHRU Klerksdorp
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KlerksdorpSouth AfricaUnknown status
Kid-Cru
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ParowSouth AfricaUnknown status
PHRU
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SowetoSouth AfricaUnknown status
UZCRC
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HarareZimbabweUnknown status

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