HIV Prevention

"Chemical Condoms" Safe, Effective For Primates

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 6th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A number of "chemical condoms" now being studied may help protect women from sexual transmission of HIV, according to researchers in England.

"Vaginal agents which are antiviral and/or inhibit the entry of HIV into the cell could prevent heterosexual transmission of HIV, and protect women who cannot negotiate condom use," explained Jonathan Weber and colleagues at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, and the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control in Hertfordshire.

Weber and coworkers found four...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-09-06)

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