1. Kuala Lumpur, July 2nd 2013 The ANRS International VISCONTI Post Treatment Controller Cohort

2. OBJECTIVES To build an international cohort of Post Treatment Controllers in order to : – Uncover mechanisms underlying viral control, i.e. HIV remission – Identify predictive markers associated with viral control after treatment interruption Main Outcome : To identify patients in whom HAART could be safely interrupted

3. To increase the number of cases: – To describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics of PTC Age, sex, PHI, Time of treatment initiation, treatment duration, ARV combinations used, transmission group… – To describe Virological and Immunological characteristics Analyse and quantification of the cellular and anatomical reservoirs Viral properties and interactions between viral and cellular proteins Innate and adaptive immunity, antibody response…. To Compare to other cohorts of patients at different stages of HIV infection: PHI, HIV controllers, Chronic patients, patients on HAART…

4. Methodology Inclusion criteria – Treatment initiation with VL >2000 HIV-RNA copies/ml, whatever the timing of infection – Treatment for more than 12 months – Viral control after Treatment interruption below 400 copies/ml for at least 12 months Data collected once a year

5. General organisation Funded and organized : ANRS – International Steering Committee – International Scientific Committee – PI : Asier Saez-Cirion and Laurent Hocqueloux International recruitment: Two levels of inclusion 1 – with Clinical and epidemiological data 2 – with Clinical and epidemiological data + BIOBANK CONTACT : visconti@anrs.fr