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Vaginal ring for HIV prevention effective and acceptable

Vaginal bacteria increase HIV susceptibility and may reduce PrEP effectiveness

Salim Abdool Karim presenting at AIDS 2016. Photo by Jan Brittenson, hivandhepatitis.com

‘On-demand’ rectal microbicide gel has reasonable tolerability and acceptability – daily less so

Ross Cranston presenting at CROI 2016. Photo by Liz Highleyman, hivandhepatitis.com

Vaginal rings containing antiretroviral moderately effective in preventing HIV – but not in the youngest women

Image credit: Andrew Loxley, courtesy of the International Partnership for Microbicides

What do women want from a vaginal microbicide ring?

Where next in PrEP and microbicides? Europeans discuss research pipeline

Vaginal microbicide ring study releases first data on participants

Disappointing result for tenofovir-gel microbicide shows that young women still lack HIV prevention methods they can use

Helen Rees at CROI 2015. Photo by Gus Cairns (aidsmap.com).

VOICE trial: Microbicide gel may have stopped two out of three HIV infections – in the women who used it