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Tibotec gets FDA approval for Prezista/Ritonavir once-daily dosing

The revised dosing recommendation extends the same dosing already approved for treatment-naive patients – Prezista, co-administered with ritonavir in combination with other antiretroviral agents and with food, once-daily (800/100mg) – to treatment-experienced patients with no DRV RAMs.

The previously approved dosing recommendation for Prezista/ritonavir in treatment-experienced patients (patients who have taken HIV medications in the past) was Prezista/ritonavir 600/100 mg twice daily.

The approval of this revision is based on 48-week data from the ODIN (Once-daily Darunavir In treatment-experieNced patients) study.

ODIN evaluated the efficacy and safety of Prezista/ritonavir once daily vs. Prezista/ritonavir twice daily for the treatment of HIV-1 in treatment-experienced adult patients with no DRV RAMs (i.e., V11I, V32I, L33F, I47V, I50V, I54M, I54L, T74P, L76V, I84V, or L89V).

Tibotec president Glenn Mattes said with this once-daily dosing recommendation, boosted Prezista is now a viable option for more treatment-experienced patients.