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African Studies Give Women Hope in HIV Fight
July 19, 2010
By Celia W. Dugger
With an AIDS vaccine still out of reach, two rigorous new studies have found different ways to sharply cut HIV infections among women and schoolgirls, who make up a majority of the newly infected in sub-Saharan Africa.
After two decades in which researchers searched fruitlessly for an effective vaginal microbicide to block HIV, South African scientists working in two AIDS-devastated communities of South Africa, one rural and one urban, say they have finally found something that shows real promise.
Women who used a vaginal microbicidal gel containing an antiretroviral medication widely used to treat AIDS, tenofovir, were 39 percent less likely over all to contract HIV than those who used a placebo. Those who used the gel most regularly reduced their chances of infection 54 percent, according to a two-and-a-half year study of 889 women by Caprisa, a Durban-based AIDS research center.
Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 20 July 2010
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