ViiV Healthcare announces phase III study meets primary endpoint, demonstrating the ability to control HIV-1 with a 2-drug regimen of dolutegravir plus lamivudine in virally suppressed patients switching from a TAF-containing, 3-drug regimen.

London, UK, 10 July 2019 – ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority-owned by GSK, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, today announced positive Week 48 results from its phase III TANGO study. The TANGO study was conducted to assess whether adults living with HIV-1 who had maintained viral suppression for at least six months on a tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (TAF)-containing regimen of at least three drugs, were able to maintain similar rates of viral suppression after switching to the 2-drug regimen (2DR) of dolutegravir plus lamivudine in a fixed dose...