DURBAN, 10 February 2009: After years of disappointments, AIDS researchers have announced results from a trial in which a vaginal microbicide appeared to offer promise in preventing HIV infection in women.
According to findings from a clinical trial involving more than 3,000 women in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the United States, the microbicide PRO 2000 gel was 30 percent effective.
-This is the first time in the history of microbicide research that we have found something that works, even if its 30 percent, Gita Ramjee, principal investigator of the trials in South Africa, told journalists on 9 February in the country’s east coast port city of Durban.
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