First-ever trial investigating if HIV prevention gels safe for pregnant women & their babies
June 12, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
According to a press release issued by Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), an HIV/AIDS clinical trials network established in 2006 by the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers will begin addressing questions of HIV microbicide in the first clinical trial of a candidate vaginal microbicide in pregnant women. A microbicide is like a spermicide but for microbes – it kills the microbes so they can’t do harm.
You can read the press release and learn what it’s all about: Trial is first to see if HIV prevention gels are safe for pregnant women, their babies.
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