Microbicides: Condoms May Become A Thing Of The Past
Posted by: Simcha Whitehill
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4:00PM, Tuesday July 8th 2008
While sticking a bunch of microbicides up your hoo-ha may seem like a bad idea, turns out it may save your vaj from the likes of HIV and other STD’s. Researchers are currently conducting clinical trials at UCLA’s AIDS Institute for microbicides, a shield you would schmear in your vajane. Nowadays, women must rely on making sure their male sexual partners use condoms, but the hope is that this type of safeguard will help ladies take matters into their own hands. The study in the U.S. is based on the larger 12-month trial of microbicides involving 10,000 people currently underway in South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda and Belgium. Fingers crossed we girls can get some protection! [Newswise]
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Elle
wrote on July 8 2008 @ 06:10 pm: [report]
Aren’t they concerned about increasing the amount of STD’s in countries that are already inundated with cases? I mean it sounds like it could be cool, but they should be working on testing cures.
LovesIt
wrote on July 9 2008 @ 10:31 am: [report]
@Elle. I’m betting preventative schmears are a lot less expensive to distribute than decades worth of AIDS meds to those already infected. Not that the infected should be ignored… just a harder problem to solve.