Post by BelizeanPoet on Mar 4, 2003 13:29:35 GMT -5
“Invisible Condom protects monkeys from AIDS virus”<br>WASHINGTON, USA Tuesday February 11th 2003
This article stated that “A gel containing antibodies to the AIDS virus protected female monkeys against infection in an experiment that suggests such a product might work as an alternative to condoms for people.
The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine helps boost claims by advocates that an ‘invisible condom’ could be a useful way to help stop the spread of AIDS, which now infects 36 million people worldwide.
John Moore of Cornell University in New York, Ronal Veazey of Tulane University in Louisiana and colleagues in the Unites States and Britain made a gel using one of the antibodies the human body naturally makes to the HIV virus.
Researchers concocted a substitute virus called SHIV, which is a combination of human immunodeficiency virus and the monkey version called SIV. They put the gel, or a saline solution carrying the antibodies, into the vaginas of 12 female monkeys, then put the virus in up to two hours later. This simulated sexual transmission of the virus. “Only 3 of the 12 animals became infected.”
Rebekah Webb, policy development officer for the National AIDS trust in Britain, welcomed the results. “It is definitely a step in the right direction, one of the huge problems in this is funding because no big pharmaceutical company is interested in this research.”<br>
AIDS HAS NO CURE AND IS ALWAYS FATAL. CONDOMS ARE THE BEST KNOWN METHOD FOR STOPPING ITS TRANSMISSION. HALF OF ALL NEW CASES OF HIV INFECTION ARE IN WOMEN, MANY OF WHOM LIVE IN SOCIETIES WHERE A WOMAN IS NOT ALWAYS FREE TO DEMAND THAT HER PARTER USE A CONDOM.
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THIS CRISIS
This article stated that “A gel containing antibodies to the AIDS virus protected female monkeys against infection in an experiment that suggests such a product might work as an alternative to condoms for people.
The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine helps boost claims by advocates that an ‘invisible condom’ could be a useful way to help stop the spread of AIDS, which now infects 36 million people worldwide.
John Moore of Cornell University in New York, Ronal Veazey of Tulane University in Louisiana and colleagues in the Unites States and Britain made a gel using one of the antibodies the human body naturally makes to the HIV virus.
Researchers concocted a substitute virus called SHIV, which is a combination of human immunodeficiency virus and the monkey version called SIV. They put the gel, or a saline solution carrying the antibodies, into the vaginas of 12 female monkeys, then put the virus in up to two hours later. This simulated sexual transmission of the virus. “Only 3 of the 12 animals became infected.”
Rebekah Webb, policy development officer for the National AIDS trust in Britain, welcomed the results. “It is definitely a step in the right direction, one of the huge problems in this is funding because no big pharmaceutical company is interested in this research.”<br>
AIDS HAS NO CURE AND IS ALWAYS FATAL. CONDOMS ARE THE BEST KNOWN METHOD FOR STOPPING ITS TRANSMISSION. HALF OF ALL NEW CASES OF HIV INFECTION ARE IN WOMEN, MANY OF WHOM LIVE IN SOCIETIES WHERE A WOMAN IS NOT ALWAYS FREE TO DEMAND THAT HER PARTER USE A CONDOM.
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THIS CRISIS