Science news articles about 'vaginal microbicides'

... AIDS Institute. "Drug companies are developing vaginal microbicides to provide direct protection to women ... would occur if HIV-positive women used microbicides and developed drug-resistant strains of HIV ...

... fast-acting-but-short-lived RNAi with the slower-acting-but-long-lived RNAi, the researchers created a vaginal microbicide offering protection that was both immediate (even warding ...

... than 3,000 women in the U.S. and southern Africa demonstrates for the first time the promise of a vaginal microbicide gel for preventing HIV infection in women. According to findings presented at the ...

... more than 3,000 women in the US and southern Africa demonstrates for the first time the promise of a vaginal microbicide gel for preventing HIV infection in women. According to findings, one 0.5 ...

... of the Journal of Infectious Disease. For years, scientists have been trying to develop a topical vaginal microbicide for preventing transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A safe and ...

Clinical trials hoping to identify a vaginal microbicide that is safe and effective against HIV have all but skirted questions befitting evaluation of an approach intended primarily for sexually ...

... , efficacy cannot be shown conclusively in animal studies, and human trials of a potential vaginal microbicide that worked well in macaques were halted recently because women using the microbicide ...

Study reports first "success" in preventing HIV infections with vaginal microbicide