In a study of 3,100 women in Africa and the United States, women who used a vaginal microbicide gel called PRO 2000 were found 30 percent less likely to become infected with HIV, according to a study ...

The first successful clinical trial of a microbicide, a topical gel that can protect against HIV during sex, brought a sense of hope and relief to prevention advocates. The news broke last week at the ...

A new study shows that a microbicide gel is highly effective in block infection by the AIDS virus in a non-human primate model. Scientists have described the gel's key ingredient, which are small ...

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JOHANNESBURG When scientists celebrated the announcement in July that a vaginal microbicide had finally been found that significantly reduced H.I.V. infections in women, there was still a prosaic ...

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Researchers have achieved an important scientific breakthrough in the fight against HIV and genital herpes with a vaginal gel that significantly reduces a woman's risk of being infected with these ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2005) – The Alliance for Microbicide Development and the Global Campaign for Microbicides today announced that they have received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

Women have become especially vulnerable to the dangers of the AIDS epidemic, spurring research for a protective gel or cream. But availability on the market is still five years away, even if all goes ...

Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair. Rosemarie Hansen learned the hard way when an open flame turned her locks into a lesson. On the hunt for informative health and disease ...

International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA), the Population Council, and the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) today released a collaborative video project called "The Rectal Revolution Is Here: ...

A microbicide made from glycerol monolaurate — an ingredient in some foods and cosmetics — can protect female monkeys from contracting an HIV-like virus, researchers have found. The compound may act ...