UCSF study will test new vaginal microbicide for herpes and HIV

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schmoozes@aol.com - 30 Nov 2006 19:55 GMT

http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=herpes

A team of researchers at UCSF is seeking young women to participate in
the first US study of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to
prevent herpes and HIV infection.

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M2slo2cht@nospam.invalid - 30 Nov 2006 20:30 GMT

schmoozes writes:

>http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=herpes
>A team of researchers at UCSF is seeking young women to participate in
>the first US study of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to
>prevent herpes and HIV infection.

Nice post. Thanks.
.... and it's about dang time. I was beginning to wonder what had
become of all the microbiocide research we'd been hearing about over
the past few years.

From the link above, they only mention use by uninfected women for the
purpose of protecting themselves. There's no mention of:
1) use by Infected women to protect a partner
2) use by uninfected men for their own protection
or
3) Use by infected men to protect a partner

Somehow, I've always thought of a microbiocide gel being somewhat like
a bottle of lubricant that can be just slopped on any ol' way by
either party or both. I don't really know though.

Does anybody here have any more info on this stuff?

M2

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Yoshi2me - 02 Dec 2006 00:22 GMT

Would you mind posting this information in the appropriate forum over on our
STD message board? Here's the link:
http://yoshi2me.com/phpbb/index.php

Thanks,

Angela

> http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=herpes
>
> A team of researchers at UCSF is seeking young women to participate in
> the first US study of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to
> prevent herpes and HIV infection.

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