HIV/AIDS

Medical Research Council reports research in HIV/AIDS

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 23rd, 2010

2010 DEC 23 -- Scientists discuss in 'The last decade of microbicide clinical trials in Africa: from hypothesis to facts' new findings in HIV/AIDS. "Microbicide clinical trials have dominated biomedical HIV prevention research in the past decade. Two generations of microbicides have gone through large-scale human clinical trials," investigators in Durban, South Africa report.

"Candidate microbicides assessed in clinical trials in Africa have fallen into the categories of surfactants, polyanionic entry inhibitors, or vaginal milieu protectors. These include compounds such as nonoxynol-9, SAVVY, cellulose sulphate, Carraguard, PRO 2000, and BufferGel....

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2010-12-23)

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