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Campaign to Save Women from HIV
19 February 2002
An international project has been launched to develop a microbicide to fight the HIV virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The substance would be particularly useful in countries where women find it difficult to persuade their partners to use condoms, say scientists.
...Microbicides offer more choice and control and research has shown that women and their partners in both the developed and the developing world want this type of product for HIV prevention.
...The US-based Rockefeller Foundation is lobbying to accelerate microbicide development and to ensure products meet critical standards of safety, effectiveness and accessibility for women in most need.
...In Africa, 2 million more women than men are infected with HIV.
Copyright 2002 British Broadcasting Company
For the Full Article, go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1827000/1827806.stm
The Rockefeller Foundation Microbicide Initiative
http://www.rockfound.org/display.asp?context=1&Collection=1&DocID=488&Preview=0&ARCurrent=1
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 19 February 2002
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