On Worldwide Women’s Day, 8 March 2008 the National AIDS Charge calls on Domination and pharmaceutical companies to support trials of a new order of microbicides that could offer the greatest hope proper for women’s sexual health in the 21st century. Existing methods of HIV arrest are without millions of women, particularly in developing countries, where women oft cannot talk condom scorn.
While trials of some antediluvian date microbicide candidates have ended without showing effectiveness, next days microbicides offer altered hope in 2008. These new compounds, currently in trials, fall out from earlier options as they specifically quarry HIV, use unlike transportation methods (such as a gel, cream, or vaginal ring), can protect for longer periods, and – most importantly – are based on proven antiretroviral therapies commonly used to treat HIV.
Deborah Jack, Chief Leader of the National AIDS Faith, comments:
“Women are disproportionately affected by HIV globally, eventually we still do not have a widely accepted female controlled option for women to take under one’s wing themselves against HIV. Next generation microbicides offer a intrinsic hope to empower women and reduce HIV as part of a full prevention package.
“Government and pharmaceutical companies ought to concoct HIV forbiddance a seniority and certain that every necessary resource is harnessed to give next generation microbicides the greatest chance of attainment.”
Women and HIV
- There are 15.4 million women living with HIV
- 61% of adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women
- Women are significantly more likely than men to compact HIV from a single act of unprotected vaginal intercourse
National AIDS Trust
The Nationalistic AIDS Conviction (NAT) is the UK’s leading unrestrained policy and campaigning disclose on HIV and AIDS. It aims to impede the spread of HIV, encourage early diagnosis, ensure people living with HIV have access to treatment and misery, and eradicate HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
National AIDS Trust