Sentences with phrase «microbicide gel»
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As reported online this week in Science and in a presentation at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, of the 444 women who received a placebo gel, 60 became infected with HIV versus 38 infections in the 445 women who received the microbicide.
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Another application could be their development into crèmes or gels (i.e. microbicides) that prevent transmission of viruses like HIV during sexual intercourse.
McCormack says the data mark the end of the road not just for this vaginal gel but the whole class of microbicides that use nonspecific compounds to prevent HIV - infection.
When the gel comes in contact with semen, the change in pH causes it to reliquefy and release an HIV - killing microbicide.
«I don't think anyone suspected that the tenofovir gel would not work,» says immunologist John Moore, who works on microbicides at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
His contributions to microbicides for HIV prevention spans two decades and culminated in the CAPRISA 004 tenofovir gel trial which provided proof - of - concept that antiretroviral drugs can prevent sexually transmitted HIV infection and herpes simplex virus type 2 in women.