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Jake Glaser -- A Global Advocate in the Fight Against Pediatric AIDS » From EGPAF
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How Africa Turned AIDS Around » From The Huffington Post
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Celebrities Become Heroes for Pediatric AIDS » From EGPAF
Zambia: 'Mother-to-child transmission to be eliminated by 2015' » From Zambia Daily Mail
Health Professionals Ask Congress Members to Continue U.S. Leadership on HIV/AIDS » From thebody.com
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision a "Critical Pillar" in Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Says US Global AIDS Coordinator » From thebody.com

Reuters: Future of AIDS Gels May Lie in Drugs, Experts Say

February 19, 2010

Reuters quotes Foundation Vice President of Research Dr. Laura Guay from the 2010 CROI conference in San Francisco about the potential development of microbicides to protect women and their infants from HIV.

"AIDS experts have long been searching for a microbicide -- a cream, gel or vaginal ring that women or men could use as a chemical shield to protect themselves from sexual transmission of the deadly and incurable virus.

"Several substances have been tried unsuccessfully but experiments presented this week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, a scientific meeting of AIDS experts, suggested HIV drugs might hold the key to making such gels work."
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