Head-to-head evidence

Ainuovirine vs Doravirine

Same mechanism, same race: design-graded trial evidence for both assets, with the grading rationale shown. Grades describe the quality of the evidence, never the merits of either security.

HIV

Shared mechanism: HIV reverse transcriptase · full HIV pipeline

Ainuovirine

Marketed by Kainos Medicine and partners

Phase 1 in HIVsmall molecule
Partial signal

NCT01348516 · Phase 1 · completed

Registry results were not posted at the time of grading; the key result shown was recovered from the cited external source.

Next expected readout: June 2028 · NCT07631897 (registry estimate)

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Doravirine · Pifeltro

Marketed by Merck & Co.

Approved in HIVsmall molecule
Reliable signal

NCT02275780 · Phase 3 · completed

This was a randomized, double-blind, active-controlled Phase 3 trial with 769 enrolled adults (385 doravirine, 384 darunavir/ritonavir). The primary endpoint was virologic suppression (HIV-1 RNA <50 copies/mL) at Week 48, a hard clinical endpoint. The non-inferiority comparison was met: the difference was 3.9 percentage points (95% CI -1.6 to 9.4), with the lower bound above the prespecified -10% margin. The trial therefore provides strong evidence that doravirine is non-inferior to darunavir/ritonavir.

Next expected readout: November 2026 · NCT04892654 (registry estimate)

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The full competitive landscape for each asset (every same-race competitor with aligned evidence, sortable) is on the asset pages: Ainuovirine's landscape · Doravirine's landscape