Doravirine 100mg tablets
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Pifeltro 100mg tablets
WHO defined daily dose (DDD)
100 mg
Not a recommended dose. The DDD is the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used for its main indication in adults. It is a statistical measure used for research and comparison purposes only.
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Reviews & meta-analyses: 11 · Randomised trials: 14 · 2015–2026
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Jean-Michel Molina, Kathleen Squires, Paul E Sax, et al.
The Lancet HIV, 2018
Azam MT, Azam MH, Khan MA, et al.
2026
Marwa Adel Afify, Iman Gamal Ghareeb Ahmed, Theeb Ayedh Alkahtani, et al.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020
Chloe Orkin, Kathleen E Squires, Jean-Michel Molina, et al.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
Abstract Background Doravirine (DOR) is a nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor. In the phase 3 DRIVE-AHEAD trial in treatment-naive adults with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, DOR demonstrated noninferior efficacy compared with efavirenz (EFV) and superior profiles for neuropsychiatric tolerability and lipids at 48 weeks. We present data through week 96. Methods DRIVE-AHEAD is a phase 3, multicenter, double-blind, noninferiority trial in antiretroviral treatment-naive adults with HIV-1 RNA ≥1000 copies/mL. Participants were randomized to a daily fixed-dose tablet of DOR (100 mg), lamivudine (3TC; 300 mg) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF; 300 mg) (DOR/3TC/TDF) or EFV (600 mg), emtricitabine (FTC; 200 mg) and TDF (300 mg) (EFV/FTC/TDF). The efficacy end point of interest at week 96 was the proportion of participants with HIV-1 RNA levels <50 copies/mL (Food and Drug Administration Snapshot Approach) with a predefined noninferiority margin of 10% to support week 48 results. Safety end points of interest included prespecified neuropsychiatric adverse events and the mean change in fasting lipids at week 96. Results Of 734 participants randomized, 728 received study drugs and were included in analyses. At week 96, HIV-1 RNA <50 copies/mL was achieved by 77.5% of DOR/3TC/TDF vs 73.6% of EFV/FTC/TDF participants, with a treatment difference of 3.8% (95% confidence interval, –2.4% to 10%). Virologic failure rates were low and similar across treatment arms, with no additional resistance to DOR observed between weeks 48 and 96. Prespecified neuropsychiatric adverse events and rash were less frequent in DOR/3TC/TDF than in EFV/FTC/TDF participants through week 96. At week 96, fasting low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels increased in the EFV/FTC/TDF group but not in the DOR/3TC/TDF group; the mean changes from baseline in total cholesterol/HDL-C ratio were similar. Clinical Trials Registration NCT02403674.
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Guanzhi Chen (9109206), Yang Zhang (30734), Jing Zhou (168494), et al.
2022
Ke Zhang, Ke Zhang, Yang Zhang, et al.
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Mills AM, Rizzardini G, Ramgopal MN, et al.
2024
- HIV-1
- HIV Infections
- Pyridones
J. Rockstroh, R. Paredes, P. Cahn, et al.
Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2025
- HIV Infections
- Triazoles
- Pyridones
Colson AE, Mills AM, Ramgopal MN, et al.
2026
- HIV Infections
- Triazoles
- Pyridones
Jürgen K. Rockstroh, S. Kassim, Roger Paredes, et al.
The lancet. HIV, 2026
- HIV-1
- HIV Infections
- Triazoles
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Key facts
Drug status
Approved
Major interactions
None known
Half-life
15 hours
Mechanism
Doravirine is a pyridinone non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor of HIV-1.
Food interactions
3 warnings
Human targets
None mapped
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Pharmacokinetics at a glance
Absorption
64%
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Half-life
15 hours
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Protein binding
76%
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Volume of distribution
60.5 L
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Metabolism
Elimination
6%
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Clearance
106 ml/min
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Pharmacokinetic data: DrugBank · CC BY-NC 4.0
Doravirine is formally indicated for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adult patients with no prior antiretroviral treatment experience, further expanding the possibility and choice of therapeutic treatments available for the management of HIV-1 infection.[L4562]
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It is also indicated to replace the current antiretroviral regimen in those who are virologically suppressed (HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies per mL) on a stable antiretroviral regimen with no history of treatment failure and no known substitutions associated with resistance to doravirine.
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Known interactions with other medicines. Always consult a healthcare professional.
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No adequate human data are available to establish whether or not doravirine poses a risk to pregnancy outcomes.
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It is unknown whether doravirine is present in human milk, affects human milk production, or has effects on the breastfed infant.
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Because of the potential for (1) HIV-1 transmission (in HIV-negative infants), (2) developing viral resistance (in HIV positive infants), and (3) serious adverse reactions in a breastfed infant, instruct mothers not to breastfeed if they are receiving doravirine.
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The safety and efficacy of doravirine have not been established in pediatric patients less than 18 years of age.
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Clinical trials of doravirine did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 years and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects. In general, caution should be exercised in the administration of doravirine in elderly patients, reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal, or cardiac function, and of comorbidities or other drug therapy.
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No dosage adjustment of doravirine is required in patients with mild, moderate, or severe renal impairment.
Doravirine has not been adequately studied in patients with end-stage renal disease and has not been studied in dialysis patients.
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No dosage adjustment of doravirine is required in patients with mild (Child-Pugh Class A) or moderate (Child-Pugh Class B) hepatic impairment. Doravirine has not been studied in patients with severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class C).
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Doravirine was not carcinogenic in long-term oral carcinogenicity studies in mice and rats at exposures up to 6 and 7 times, respectively, the human exposures at the RHD.
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A statistically significant incidence of thyroid parafollicular cell adenoma and carcinoma seen only in female rats at the high dose was within the range observed in historical controls.
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Doravirine was not genotoxic in a battery of in vitro or in vivo assays, including microbial mutagenesis, chromosomal aberration in Chinese hamster ovary cells, and in in vivo rat micronucleus assays.
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There were no effects on fertility, mating performance or early embryonic development when doravirine was administered to rats at systemic exposures (AUC) approximately 7 times the exposure in humans at the RHD.
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Furthermore, at a dose of 1200 mg, which provides approximately 4 times the peak concentration observed following the recommended dose, doravirine does not prolong the QT interval to any clinically relevant extent.[L12729]
How the body processes this drug — absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination
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Following oral [14C]doravirine administration, all of the administered dose was recovered[A38823] and the agent is considered to be well absorbed.
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Moreover, its co-administration with food did not greatly alter doravirine's pharmacokinetic profile during clinical studies.
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Only 6% of an administered dose is recovered in the urine unchanged, with even less unchanged drug found in the feces.
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Enzymes involved in drug metabolism — important for understanding drug interactions
ATC J05AR24
ATC J05AG06
Chemical identifiers
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Chemical identifiers
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Doravirine
Additional database identifiers
Drugs Product Database (DPD)
23001
ChemSpider
28424197
BindingDB
50508293
PDB
2KW
ZINC
ZINC000072317283
GenBank Gene Database
U28646
GenBank Protein Database
896047
UniProt Accession
Q72547_HV1
GenBank Gene Database
M15654
GenBank Protein Database
326388
UniProt Accession
POL_HV1B1
HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC)
HGNC:2637
GenAtlas
CYP3A4
GeneCards
CYP3A4
GenBank Gene Database
M18907
Guide to Pharmacology
1337
UniProt Accession
CP3A4_HUMAN
HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC)
HGNC:2638
GenAtlas
CYP3A5
GeneCards
CYP3A5
GenBank Gene Database
J04813
GenBank Protein Database
181346
Guide to Pharmacology
1338
UniProt Accession
CP3A5_HUMAN
DrugBank citations
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