Sharon Hillier and Ian McGowan of the U.S. - based Microbicide Trials Network, which ran the NIH - funded study of PRO 2000, said in a release issued today that the new results «raise little doubt that at this juncture, agents with specific action against HIV, such as antiretroviral drugs, offer the most hope.» (sciencemag.org)
«This [set of studies] was the last hope for microbicides in many ways,» says Thomas Hope of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. (sciencemag.org)
Where budgets are limited, they suggest money should be allocated first to increasing male circumcision, then to more frequent HIV screening, use of vaginal microbicides and increasing antiretroviral therapy. (sciencedaily.com)