Schering-Plough Initiates Phase II Study With Vicriviroc in Treatment-Naive HIV-Infecte...(Combination Treatment with an Optimized ...),Health

Date:4/15/2008

Combination Treatment with an Optimized Antiretroviral Therapy Regimen in HIV-Infected Treatment-Experienced Subjects), evaluate the virologic benefit of adding vicriviroc 30 mg once daily to an optimized ritonavir-boosted PI-containing background therapy compared to a control group receiving new optimized background therapy alone. The optimized background therapy must include at least two drugs to which the patient's HIV is susceptible. Patients coinfected with hepatitis B or C may be included in these studies and there are no exclusions of commonly prescribed drugs or need for dose adjustments based on the known vicriviroc drug-drug interaction profile. The two studies are currently enrolling approximately 375 patients each at more than 160 sites in North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia and South Africa.

For more information about vicriviroc clinical studies, please visit http://www.clinicaltrials.gov, search term: vicriviroc.

About Schering-Plough

Schering-Plough is an innovation-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through its own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world. The company applies its research-and-development platform to human prescription and consumer products as well as to animal health products. Schering-Plough's vision is to "Earn Trust, Every Day" with the doctors, patients, customers and other stakeholders served by its colleagues around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is http://www.schering-plough.com.

SCHERING-PLOUGH DISCLOSURE NOTICE: The information in this press release includes certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the company
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