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Published online 7 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.937
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Anti-HIV gels may give bigger benefit to men
Microbicides designed to help women could promote drug resistance.
A new generation of microbicide gels designed to shield women from HIV could end up protecting men more than women, mathematical models suggest.
The results, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA1, show how the emergence of drug-resistant strains of HIV in women would reduce the transmission of HIV from women to men.
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