Aids gel: good news for women

This is an interesting article about a gel that researchers have come up with that might possibly protect women from the infection. It is however safe to use. The gel uses the drug, Viread, sold by Gilead Sciences Inc.

There was a meeting of AIDS researchers in India and involved 200 sexually-active HIV-negative women in the US and India. It is a microbicide (gel or creams) that can be applied vaginally or anally to prevent transmission of HIV that causes AIDS.

There are many other ones that were tested and were unsuccessful like Carraguard, Nonoxynol-9, and Ushercell.

According to the United Nations Agency UNAIDS, 46% of the 33.2 million affected are women.

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Here is more information on the article. The news is kind of old, but I thought it went well with our class.