HIV Prevention Must Address Women' Needs
"Women need education, economic opportunity and social support. Women need gender equality in order to protect their health and rights. Women need HIV and STD prevention tools they can control. Women need microbicides..."
-- Seoul Times 09/05/2006 |
Microbicides and their role in HIV prevention
Authored by the Global Campaign's own Rebekah Webb (follow link and continue to page 29 of the publication)
-- Contact: A publication of the World Council of Churches
August 2006 |
A Little Dab Will Do Ya: Chasing Down Microbicides
California coalition advocates for microbicides and wins the passing of a state resolution.
-- POZ Magazine 08/30/2006 |
For People With AIDS, a Government With Two Faces
The New York Times' Tina Rosenberg addresses South Africa's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the role of treatment activists.
-- New York Times 08/30/2006 |
What's missing is political will
"The means are available to fight the pandemic but the international AIDS bureaucracy refuses to recognize that AIDS is essentially a crisis of governance writes Laurie Garret."
-- Toronto Star 08/25/2006 |
Between Friends
Microbicides makes the comics
-- Seattle Times 08/22/2006 |
20 Questions
The Northwest Microbicides Coalition's own Jessica Cohen answers questions about microbicides and the Global Campaign.
-- Rivet Magazine August 2006 |
Africa's Condom - Wary Women, Hit by HIV, Await Protective Gels
Leaders in the field of microbicide research & development speak to the need for more prevention options prior to the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada.
-- Bloomberg 08/11/2006 |
The Doctor's World: Talking About AIDS, With All the World Watching
Highlights from the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada.
-- New York Times 08/08/2006 |
When a Pill Is Not Enough
"In the whole AIDS epidemic, no question is more heartbreaking and confounding than this: Why would a mother choose to condemn her baby to death?"
-- New York Times 08/06/2006
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Microbicides: Stopping HIV at the Gate
Alan Stone and Shibo Jiang offer a summary of microbicides research and an overview of consensus that emerged from the Microbicides 2006 conference held in Cape Town, South Africa in April 2006.
-- The Lancet 08/05/2006 |
Moving Toward Assured to Treatment in Microbicides Trials
Public concern about ethics in HIV-prevention trials intensified in the last 18 months, reaching a flashpoint that resulted in the halting of two clinical trials to test the efficacy of tenofovir as a possible method of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) against HIV infection.
-- PLos Medicine 07/11/2006 |
AIDS advocates demand rectal microbicides
A call for increased attention to rectal microbicides and a new report from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago at Microbicides 2006.
-- CDC HIV/STD/TB Prevention News Update 04/27/2006 |
HIV/AIDS leaders urge fast tracking of microbicides
"In a groundbreaking move, government and community activists in South Africa have reached consesus on the need to fast-track the development of microbicides..."
-- AFRIKOM 04/26/2006 |
Bitter fruit: Another idea for stopping AIDS falls flat
Lime juice proves unsuccessful as a potential microbicide.
-- The Economist 04/26/2006 |
AIDS Conference Ends with Appeals
"Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, said he was deeply disappointed that research into microbicides _ or vaginal gels _ was so slow."
-- Washington Post 04/26/2006 |
Communities urged to participate in research on anti-Aids gels for women
"Microbicides research must be done not only for or on the greater community, but with them..."
-- Cape Times 04/26/2006 |
Microbicides - New Hope in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Washington, DC's local NPR station covers the city's climbing HIV rates and talks to CONRAD and the Global Campaign's own Anna Forbes about the research and development of and advocacy for microbicides.
-- WAMU 04/14/2006 (NPR Radio) |
A Prophylactic Gel to Stop Transmission
A five minute news story on the U.S. National Public Radio during the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok
--National Public Radio 07/14/2004 |
Anti-HIV cream for women gets support
A front page article in Seattle that covers microbicide advocacy and local Seattle connections building up to the Microbicides 2004 conference.
-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter 3/24/04 |
Microbicides: HIV killers in the making
This article provides an overview of the clinical trials that are taking place this year.
-- The Hindu Business Line 4/28/04 |
Microbicides: a new approach to preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
Abstract from the article: Many chemical agents can block human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the laboratory. Scientists are investigating which of these, used intravaginally by women, will safely prevent the sexual transmission of HIV in humans. Several such products — microbicides — will soon be tested in populations at high risk for HIV, and others are waiting in the wings. Microbicides will provide a low-cost method, controlled by women, for protection against HIV, other sexually transmitted pathogens and unwanted pregnancy, and will therefore have global public-health benefits.
-- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery December 2002 |
Microbicdes - aids to safer sex
Robin Shattock discusses women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, the need for microbicides, potential targets for microbicides, and research updates.
-- The Lancet 3/27/04  read |
Some Makers, Vendors Drop N-9 Spermicide on HIV Risk
Under pressure from public-health officials, several makers and vendors of condoms and sexual lubricants have stopped selling products with Nonoxynol-9, after studies indicating the substance can increase risk of HIV.
-- Wall Street Journal 9/25/02 (not available on site) |
Ban Called for on Nononynol-9 Products
Find out about the Global Campaign's efforts to persuade condom and lubricant manufacturers to discontinue products with N-9.
-- Washington Blade 10/4/02 read |
Making Whoopee Over Gel Condom
A birth-control gel that also protects against HIV and other venereal diseases is getting a yawn from industry. But a passionate grassroots movement is taking up the cause. Rebecca Reid reports.
--Ottawa Citizen 4/06/02 read |
AIDS Breakthrough Could Go Begging
Business Week magazine discusses the economics of microbicide development
--Business Week Magazine 7/04/01 (not available on site) |
In the Bedroom
The biggest sex news since the Pill? A revolutionary birth-control method that will kill off HIV - and be undetectable by a woman's sex partner.
--Vogue Magazine April 2002 (not available on site) |
Microbe Managers: Meet the Next Generation of HIV Prevention
The Baltimore City Paper profiles Buffer Gel and the team of Johns Hopkins Researchers who are working to put prevention into women's hands.
--Baltimore City Paper 3/12/02 read |
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