Gel Provides AIDS protection.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Indevus Pharmaceuticals gel formulated to protect women from the virus that causes AIDS appeared to protect about a third of them from infection -- the first time a so-called microbicide has been shown to work, researchers led by Dr. Salim Abdool Karim of the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africatold a conference in Montreal.
The trial was performed on 3,000 women, of whom 30% were protected.