News tagged with vaginal gel

results timeline

Clinical trial of antiretroviral-based HIV prevention strategies for women now under way

Sep 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A new, large-scale clinical trial is examining whether antiretroviral medications normally used to treat HIV infection can also prevent HIV infection in women when applied as a vaginal gel or taken as oral tablets once daily.

An HIV-blocking gel for women

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Aug 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid ...

AIDS: Microbicide gel 'highly encouraging' in lab tests

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Mar 04, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a cheap, commonly-used compound shielded monkeys from a lethal cousin of HIV.

Anti-HIV gel shows promise in large-scale study in women

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Feb 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

An investigational vaginal gel intended to prevent HIV infection in women has demonstrated encouraging signs of success in a clinical trial conducted in Africa and the United States. Findings of the recently concluded study, ...

HIV prevention researchers to compare common ARV as a pill and vaginal gel in unique study

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Jul 09, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

In battle with an epidemic that has outpaced nearly all efforts to contain it, researchers are turning to strategies centered on the same antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that have been used successfully to treat HIV in hopes they ...