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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 24, 2018--ViiV Healthcare today presented 100-week results from its phase III programme evaluating the safety and efficacy of switching virologically-suppressed people living with HIV (PLHIV) from a three or four-drug antiretroviral regimen to a 2-drug regimen of dolutegravir (ViiV Healthcare) and rilpivirine (Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.) 1 These results were presented at the 22nd International AIDS Conference taking place 23-27 July 2018 in Amsterdam.

John C. Pottage, Jr., MD, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, ViiV Healthcare, commented, “As we progress further into a new era of HIV treatment, these 100-week data from the SWORD studies add to the growing evidence base for Juluca and 2-drug regimens. The results confirm the ability of Juluca to maintain efficacy over a 100-week period and importantly support that the long-term safety profile of this regimen is consistent with the respective labels of the component medicines. This 100-week data should provide physicians with further confidence that they may be able to reduce the number of antiretroviral drugs required to effectively maintain virologic suppression in their patient’s HIV.”