IT SEEMS that the long wait for a solution to HIV virus has ended finally. According to a latest study, a woman's risk of contracting HIV infection can be significantly reduced with the help of a vaginal gel. The search for such a solution that had been underway for almost 15 years, was discovered by a team of scientists in South Africa, who were working at two levels in Africa that included rural and urban Africa. Their discovery was seen as a sustainable solution for HIV infection and HIV virus as there were other teams involved simultaneously.
Michel Sidibe who is executive director of UNAIDS exulted by saying, “ This is very encouraging. It can be controlled by women, and put in 12 hours earlier, and that is empowering. They do not have to ask the man for permission to use it. And the cost of the gel is not high.’’
As per new medicine, women who applied vaginal microbicidal gel containing an antiretroviral medication which is used to treat the AIDS virus, tenofovir, had 39% less chances of contracting the HIV virus than the women who used placebo. Although furthermore large scale results have to be conducted for understanding the dynamics of this medicine it will take a few more years when this gel hits the market.
A research conducted in the group level showed that the people who used the gel on a regular were likely to reduce the chances of contracting HIV infection by 54 percent on 889 women over a period of two and a half years by Caprissa, an AIDS research center in Durban, South Africa.
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