Articles
Microbicide Development Hinges on New Products Administered in New Ways (Article in IAVI Report, 2015, Issue 4)
Non-specific or antiretroviral-based vaginal gels failed to work but new formulations offer hope. For entire article, click here.
Block That Sperm! (The Atlantic Magazine, March, 2015)
Antibodies from plants: By inserting human genes into plants, scientists have been able to create disease-fighting proteins called “plantibodies,” which work just like the antibodies that the human immune system makes to ward off infections. Harvesting such proteins from plants—many plantibody researchers work with tobacco—is far cheaper than growing them in human cell cultures.(The world […]
Plantibodies Could Pave the Road to Wellness (Newsweek, Dec. 15, 2014)
One day, women everywhere may dissolve a postage-stamp sized piece of translucent film in their vaginas. It might look like a Listerine strip. It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg. It might also halt the HIV and herpes viruses found in semen […]
Cell-Associated HIV Mucosal Transmission: The Neglected Pathway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2014 Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, ginad@bu.edu (Boston)—Dr. Deborah Anderson from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and her colleagues are challenging dogma about the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Most research has focused on infection by free viral particles, while this group proposes that HIV is also […]
Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTS) Initiative
New Prevention Will Simultaneously Reduce HIV, STIs and Unplanned Pregnancy Infographic Release: MPTs for Comprehensive Reproductive Health Sacramento, CA: Following the announcement of President Obama’s significant commitment of $100 million for HIV/AIDS treatment research, funding that will bring us closer to a cure, an international collaboration of health experts, researchers and funders today called […]
Bostonia Magazine Article on IPCP
Bostonia Magazine published an article on the IPCP project in its Summer 2012 issue.