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I wonder who's job it is to lube up a bunch of lab rats for testing.
Anti-AIDS Gel Expected in 3 to 4 Years
Thu Apr 14,11:52 AM ET Health - AP
By ERICA BULMAN, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA - The United Nations AIDS chief predicted Thursday that a vaginal gel that protects women from contracting HIV during intercourse could be ready in as little three to four years.
With the successful development of a vaccine still nowhere in sight, UNAIDS chief Peter Piot said a gel designed to thwart the transmission of the AIDS virus during sex would be the next best thing.
"Where we have better hope is something at least as important, and that is a so-called microbicide," Piot said, adding there were currently about 15 HIV/AIDS microbicide products being tested around the world. "Conceptually, it's straightforward, whereas with the vaccine we still don't know where to go.
"We are, in the most optimistic scenario, I would say three years, four years away. Currently we are dealing with trials that deal with thousands and thousands of women."
The microbicide would come in the form of a gel or an ovule that's put in the vagina before intercourse and immediately kills the virus upon contact. Piot compared it to a contraceptive spermicide.
Researchers around the globe have been working on a vaccine since the discovery of the AIDS virus over 20 years ago. So far only one vaccine candidate has undergone a large-scale clinical trial, and results proved disappointing. Only two other candidate vaccines are in human trials right now, in Thailand and the United States, Piot said.
"We don't even know for a HIV/AIDS vaccine what are the elements in the immune response that protect us, what kind of antibodies should we try to stimulate," Piot said.
Nearly half the 39.4 million people infected with HIV worldwide are female. Three-quarters of all HIV-positive women live in sub-Saharan Africa. About 57 percent of the adults with HIV are women.
Women often have to rely on whether their male partner is faithful and uses a condom, Piot said. Abstinence is often not an option, especially in marriage, and negotiating the use of a condom within any relationship in any culture is difficult.
"Over half of all new infections today occur in women," Piot said. "Because of this increasing feminization of the epidemic we need ways to protect women and ways that are under the control of women, preferably one a male partner wouldn't even know the woman is using.
I wonder who's job it is to lube up a bunch of lab rats for testing.
good news or bad news??? hmmm
Lubricates too!
I think I know what Clan meant, but I'm sure he'll tell me if I'm wrong
Now there will be an excuse for more unprotected sex. More diseases spreading, more unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, etc. Well, that's my take on the downside of it. He might have something totally different in mind.
just more crisco for frisco...
I can definitely see some gender cross over and product extensions in this research...Astro-glide plus...
Maybe it's slow drying super glue. That would fix the problemd too.
Ok, maybe it's just me, but if I'm afraid that I will get aids from someone, is it really pleasant to think about smearing some gell all over yourself or the female so you won't get aids?
Will Dial have those little anti-bacterial dispensers of this stuff in restrooms soon?
no kidding...I can just see the doctor handing out a tube of cream and saying it's OK to have unprotected sex with someone that has AIDs...I would be like...OK...uhhh...why don't you go first and tell me later if it REALLY works?...
I think this is meant more for places such as Africa.
I think it's meant more for places such as the butt.
I thought it was vaganal only?
oh...
OK...
I guess they are supposed to be too stupid to ask the same question...
it's crest for hookers as well...
@ this whole ing thread
It should come in little fire extinguishers. Or maybe a grease gun.
It's a good idea in theory, but I would expect it to have the same problem as condoms, i.e. getting people to actually use it.
Will it be flavored?!!!
New AIDS gel!!! Now in a minty cherry flavor!!! Yum!!!!!
God, this is getting gross...
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