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HPV InfectionPhase 3H2VICTORYNCT05173324

Integration of HPV Vaccination and HPV-based Cervical Screening Into ARV Clinics: the H2VICTORY Trial

A Phase 3 study testing HPV vaccine, HPV testing and HAV vaccine in people with HPV Infection, run by International Agency for Research on Cancer.

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Opening soon. The study is approved but enrolment has not started yet. Sites may already take enquiries.

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Trial summary

A 3-dose HPV vaccination scheme has shown to be safe and immunogenic in people living with HIV (PLWH), although evidence on 1-dose, which is important to improve coverage, is scarce. Available HPV vaccines only prevent new infections. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 25 to 35 years, women only
Conditions the study is for
HPV Infection
What is being tested?
HPV vaccine, HPV testing and HAV vaccine
Type of treatment
Vaccines
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
8,000 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
1 Feb 2023to 30 Jun 2027
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 25 to 35 years
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Women living with HIV (WLWH)
  • Aged 25-35 years
  • Attending ARV clinics
  • Mentally competent to give informed consent

Who cannot join

  • Pregnancy
  • Less than 3 months postpartum
  • Women without a cervix (e.g., hysterectomy)
  • Plans to move to another city in the next 2 years or any other reason to prevent finalizing the study

Trial locations and contacts

No sites are listed yet. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Armando Baena, MSc, PhD contact

+33 4 72 73 88 55

baenaa@iarc.who.int

Maribel Almonte, MPH, MSc, PhD contact

+33 4 72 73 84 92

almontem@iarc.who.int

About this study

Official title: Integration of HPV Vaccination and HPV-based Cervical Screening in Young Adult WLWH Into ARV Clinics to Speed the Pathway Towards Cervical Cancer Elimination: the H2VICTORY Trial

A 3-dose HPV vaccination scheme has shown to be safe and immunogenic in people living with HIV (PLWH), although evidence on 1-dose, which is important to improve coverage, is scarce. Available HPV vaccines only prevent new infections. Since a large fraction of WLWH is already infected with HPV (>50%), vaccines' efficacy to prevent HPV infections (and therefore cervical disease) in this population is limited. Current WHO cervical cancer screening guidelines recommend treatment of the transformation zone (TZ) of WLWH who harbor HPV infections either at initial screening or one year later. Therefore, HPV vaccination at the time of the screening may improve vaccines efficacy conferring protection to newly growing cells of the treated TZ against HPV infections/re-infections. Consequently, a dual-intervention of HPV vaccination and HPV-based cervical screening in WLWH may alleviate the burden of HPV-related disease by improving HPV vaccination efficacy while extending cervical screening intervals. Nevertheless, implementing the dual-intervention may be challenging particularly in some contexts without well-established cervical cancer screening such as sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. However, in these countries, at least 60% of PLWH regularly attend ARV clinics to be monitored and receive ARV treatment (cART). Therefore, integrating the dual-intervention into ARV clinics seems to be an efficient approach to reduce loss to follow-up while improving overall coverages of HPV vaccination and cervical screening. Such integration may also facilitate the implementation of a platform for the delivery of other HPV-related preventive measures such as HPV therapeutic vaccines.

Nevertheless, little is known about the efficacy of HPV vaccination in WLWH to prevent HPV infections and HPV-related diseases, especially in young adults. Moreover, evidence on how best to conduct cervical cancer prevention, particularly recently released WHO guidelines, through ARV clinics is limited. Therefore, IARC/WHO in collaboration with HRP/WHO and colleagues in SSA proposes to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial (H2VICTORY) to evaluate the effectiveness of the dual-intervention of HPV vaccination and HPV-based cervical screening to reduce HPV infections (and therefore, the risk of cervical cancer) in WLWH aged 25-35 years while conducting implementation research to identify facilitators and barriers for adoption and sustainability of proven evidence-based cervical cancer prevention approaches integrated into ARV clinics across sub-Saharan Africa.

Read the detailed description

An effectiveness-implementation hybrid study is proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of a dual intervention of HPV vaccination and HPV-triage-and-treat to reduce the risk of cervical cancer and to study its integration into ARV clinics. The overarching hypothesis will be that offering the dual intervention of HPV vaccination and HPV-triage-treat in young WLWH will catalyze the preventive effect of both evidence-based interventions as: (i) the HPV vaccination efficacy will be improved when applied after HPV infections are (progressively) removed by treatment of the TZ (enrolment, 12 months, both) as the vaccine will confer protection from new infections to new TZ growing cells; and (ii) the reduction of new HPV infections may allow extension of HPV-triage-treat intervals, contributing to feasible scale-up of comprehensive cervical cancer preventive care to WLWH attending ARV clinics. The H2VICTORY specific aims are:

  1. To assess the readiness ARV clinics in sub-Saharan African countries to inform contextually relevant strategies to de-implement current interventions (i.e. Pap, VIA) and implement and integrate the dual-intervention of HPV vaccination and HPV-based cervical screening and treatment.
  2. To study the implementation of the dual-intervention into ARV clinics in sub-Saharan African countries while evaluating its effectiveness (HPV vaccination \& cervical screening vs cervical screening alone) in reducing HPV infections (and therefore, the risk of cervical precancer and cancer) among WLWH aged 25-35 years.
  3. To assess the integration of the dual intervention in HIV clinical services and identify facilitators and barriers for the sustainability of proven effective interventions (dual-intervention, HPV cervical screening) in SSA.

H2VICTORY will include WLWH aged 25-35 years attending ARV clinics to complete HPV vaccination schemes (0-2-6-month) and to be screened with HPV testing. Participants will be evenly allocated (1:1:1) to receive HPV vaccine (3-doses or 1-dose) or placebo. WLWH in a single-dose HPV vaccination scheme will receive placebo at months 2 and 6. Follow-up visits would be scheduled at i) 2 and 6 months to complete vaccination schemes, ii) 12 months 12 (only HPV positives at screening) to complete HPV-based cervical screening according to WHO guidelines, and iii) at 24 months (all participants) to measure efficacy outcomes. Ablative treatment would be offered to those who test positive on HPV at entry and/or at 12 months according to WHO cervical cancer screening and treatment guidelines to progressively remove HPV infections present at baseline. Ablative treatment will be thermal ablation (TA) or cryotherapy (whichever is available) for eligible women (i.e., visualization of the transformation zone and no suspicion of cervical cancer). Women not eligible for TA/cryotherapy would be referred to colposcopy to assess the type of treatment (e.g., LLETZ).

Cervical samples for HPV testing and genotyping will be collected at entry, 12 months (for HPV positives at entry), and 24 months (for everyone), and blood samples for neutralizing HPV antibodies detection will be collected at entry and 24 months (for everyone). The study will initially start in four study centers in South Africa (Cape Town and Durban), Kenya (Nairobi), and Eswatini (Mbabane) where at least 500 participants will be included in each center. HPV vaccine available in school-based programs in each country will be used (i.e., bivalent in South Africa, quadrivalent in Kenya and Eswatini). Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccine will be administrated as a placebo. An experienced pharmacist will be in charge of preparing jabs according to randomization. Central computed randomization will be done. An experienced pharmacist will prepare identical appearance jabs with HPV vaccine or HAV vaccine according to assignation. Allocation will be blinded for participants, care providers, statisticians, and any other staff members. Permuted blocks size 3, and 6 will be used. Additional study centers and collaborators will be involved to extend the study to other countries and settings in order to reach the sample size.

Conditions
HPV Infection
Being tested
HPV vaccine, HPV testing, HAV vaccine
Keywords
HPV vaccination, HPV-based cervical screening, HIV infection, Cervical ablative treatment, Antiretroviral clinics, Implementation research, Hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials
Medical subject headings
Papillomavirus Infections, HIV Infections

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • HPV vaccineBiological

    Licensed HPV vaccines (bivalent, quadrivalent, or nonvalent) available in the country of the study site

  • HPV testingDiagnostic test

    HPV testing with partial genotyping of HPV16/18 (and/or 45) to be used as a primary cervical screening test for all participants regardless of the study arm

  • HAV vaccineBiological

    Hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccine to be offered as a placebo

Study groups in NCT05173324
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
3-doses HPV vaccinationExperimentalParticipants will receive three doses of HPV vaccine at 0, 2, and 6 months
Receives: Biological: HPV vaccine; Diagnostic Test: HPV testing
1-dose HPV vaccinationExperimentalParticipants will receive HPV vaccine at entry, and placebo (HAV vaccine) at 2 and 6 months
Receives: Biological: HPV vaccine; Diagnostic Test: HPV testing; Biological: HAV vaccine
PlaceboPlacebo comparatorParticipants will receive Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccine at 0, 2, and 6 months
Receives: Diagnostic Test: HPV testing; Biological: HAV vaccine

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. HPV infection

    HPV prevalent infections at 24 months since initial screening

    Measured: 24 months

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. HPV antibodies

    Neutralizing antibodies of HPV at entry and at 24 months

    Measured: 24 months

  2. CD4

    CD4 counts at entry and at 24 months

    Measured: 24 months

  3. HIV viral load

    HIV viral load at entry and at 24 months

    Measured: 24 months

  4. Adverse events (AEs)

    Adverse events

    Measured: 24 months

  5. Serious adverse events (SAEs)

    SAEs

    Measured: 24 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted29 Dec 2021
  2. Study start1 Feb 2023 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion30 Jun 2027 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Jun 2027 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
8,000 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05173324
Sponsor's protocol ID
PP202111-31
Acronym
H2VICTORY
Status last verified
Aug 2022
First submitted
15 Dec 2021
Last updated
3 Aug 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
Yes
Individual data sharing
Undecided: Plan to be defined

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing HPV vaccine, HPV testing and HAV vaccine in people with HPV Infection, run by International Agency for Research on Cancer.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 3 Aug 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Armando Baena, MSc, PhD (+33 4 72 73 88 55, baenaa@iarc.who.int), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

HPV infection (time frame: 24 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 3 Aug 2022.

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