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SUBMITTER: Ferguson LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3314337 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferguson Lindsay M LM Rohan Lisa Cencia LC
Therapeutic delivery 20111201 12
The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to be a global health priority, with high rates of new HIV-I infections persisting in young women. One HIV prevention strategy is topical pre-exposure prophylactics or microbicides, which are applied vaginally or rectally to protect the user from HIV and possibly other sexually transmitted infections. Vaginal microbicide delivery will be the focus of this review. Multiple nonspecific and specific antiretroviral microbicide products have been clinically evaluated, ...[more]