Detroit Escorts: AIDS Prevention Gel Fails in Trial, Researchers Say
December 15, 2009 at 4:49 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsThis trial recruited women in South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania. Some were from the general population, some worked at highway truck stops, and some were not infected but married to men who were. All were also given condoms and told to try to use them before any sex act; that makes any such trials take far longer and produces much less robust results, but to fail to offer condoms and sex advice would have been unethical.
Because they know women can’t use microbicides 100 percent of the time, Dr. McCormack said that even if the gel had worked only a third of the time, “we would have been ecstatic.”
Making a safe, acceptable, effective microbicide has proved far more difficult than researchers predicted 20 years ago. While prostitutes can sometimes get men to use condoms, wives and lovers often cannot, and may also want to become pregnant without being infected. They will use only something that is not unpleasantly messy or sticky, and it must block a tiny virus without blocking sperm, which are thousands of times larger.
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