Promising results from some trials of microbicidal gels!
The great thing about microbicidal gels or foams is that they empower women, who live in areas with high HIV prevalence rates and whose partners are unwilling to use condoms, to take control of and protect their own sexual health.
Studies of Truvada, a combination of tenofovir and the newer drug emtricitabine, showed that it could serve as a pre-exposure prophylaxis in monkeys .. in either pill or gel form!
So perhaps in the future, women will be able to protect themselves with a prophylactic gel or pill, even if they might not have control over their partners' (risky) sexual behavior.
AIDS gels may work, but weakness seen in cocktails - Reuters, 2/10/09
About Me
- kys
- My name is Kaya Shah, and I grew up in Knoxville, TN, a city nestled in a valley of the Smokey Mountains. I moved to Boston to study physics and planetary science at MIT. After graduating, I researched pediatric HIV and TB diagnostics with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at the Harvard School of Public Health. I received my M.D. from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. While at Stritch, I participated in a service trip to Fond-des-blancs, Haiti, six months after the 2010 earthquake. I am currently a resident in the anesthesiology residency program at Loyola University Medical Center. I remain interested in medical mission trips.
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