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Medical News In Clinical Trial, Vaginal Gel PRO 2000 Found "Safe but Ineffective" at Preventing HIV InfectionSeptember 20, 2010 A vaginal gel designed to protect women against HIV "was found to be safe but ineffective" in a clinical trial, Agence France-Presse reports, citing a study published online in the journal Lancet. The gel, PRO 2000, was tested in two different concentrations on 9,000 women in South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The gel contains a "large charged polymer, which is intended to disrupt HIV's interaction with targeted cells." AFP notes PRO 2000 is "different" from the CAPRISA 004 vaginal gel, which was shown to be effective in clinical trials earlier this year and incorporates AIDS drug tenofovir into the gel (9/19). MedPage Today reports that "adherence was high" but "the incidence of HIV was much the same in both analyses" of the two different gel concentrations and the placebo (Smith, 9/19). Back to other news for September 2010
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