Female-controlled preventive methods
The
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS seeks to:
Support female-controlled preventive methods.
Women and girls also need prevention options
they can control themselves, such as the female condom
and microbicides - sponges, gels, creams, and suppositories
that block HIV transmission. An additional US$1billion
invested now could produce an effective microbicide
within the next 10 years. |
Women are twice more likely than men to contract
HIV from a single act of unprotected sex, but they remain
dependent on male cooperation to protect themselves from infection.
Women need methods to protect themselves from HIV that they
can control.
At present, there are two potential methods:
the female condom which is already available, in use in some
countries, and has proved to be a successful alternative for
many women; and microbicides, which are under development.
Like today's spermicides, microbicides would be used vaginally
or rectally by people wishing to protect themselves and their
partners from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
CONVENING AGENCIES
International
Partnership for Microbicides
Global
Campaign for for Microbicides
RELATED DOCUMENTS
Backgrounder: Microbicides,
women and AIDS
Backgrounder:
Basic facts on the female condom
WHO Fact sheet: Women
and microbicides
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