Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are research studies designed to answer specific questions about the safety and/or effectiveness of drugs, vaccines, other therapies, or new ways of using existing treatments.
This section is designed to help you understand about the clinical trial process, option that are available and to help you locate a clinical trial unit nearest you.
Data on published ACTG clinical trials are available to the public via two mechanisms:
- Data on published randomized studies that either were classified as Stage III or IV or were otherwise considered pivotal are archived at the National Technical Information Services or NTIS (http://www.ntis.gov). A list of these studies is provided here.
- Data on published ACTG clinical trials that do not appear on this list are available by sending an email to sdac.data@sdac.harvard.edu. Please provide: full names and contact information for collaborators; a brief statement of the objectives of the project; the ACTG protocol numbers of the studies (or, alternatively, publication references for the studies) from which data are being requested; and the variables and, where relevant, the time points for the variables that are being requested.