New Contraceptive Device … Is Designed to Prevent Sexual Transmission of HIV

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://news.med.cornell.edu/wcmc/wcmc_2009/05_19_09.shtml

New Contraceptive Device Developed by Weill Cornell Researchers Is Designed to Prevent Sexual Transmission of HIV

Non-Hormonal Method Avoids Side Effects and Cancer Risk

NEW YORK (May 19, 2009) — Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have published results showing that a new contraceptive device may also effectively block the transmission of the HIV virus. Findings show that the device prevents infection by the HIV virus in laboratory testing. The promising results are published in the most recent issue of the journal AIDS.

The new device is a vaginal ring that releases multiple types of non-hormonal agents and microbicides, which would prevent conception as well as sexually transmitted HIV infection.

Worldwide, there are about 5 million new infections and 3 million deaths per year due to HIV/AIDS. If proven successful in future clinical trials, the new device could empower women to effectively and conveniently protect themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection. The ring may also someday represent a novel method to prevent STIs for those with aversion to currently available methods, with hormonally derived active agents, or with allergies to latex condoms.

"This device is a new approach to birth control, because it avoids the long-term use of hormonal methods that have been associated with increased risk of certain cancers," says Dr. Brij Saxena, lead author and the Harold and Percy Uris Professor of Reproductive Biology and professor of endocrinology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "At the same time, this is the first device to simultaneously offer the possibility to prevent unintended pregnancy and HIV transmission."

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[msongs]

1. yeah but what does the bible say about it? nt

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. What's your point?

[kestrel91316]

3. You apparently missed her sarcasm. The fundies will be condeming it

as interfering with God's plan to punish the wicked in 3....2....1....

[mizz pibb]

7. That all religions are bad, yada yada...

Must suck to color everything in those terms.

[OKIsItJustMe]

8. I am sometimes amazed

by just how http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illiberal">illiberal some self-styled "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberal">liberals" are.

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"… I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. …"

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/National-Brotherhood-Week-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/625DBDA1F04F231148256A7D0025A2FC">— Tom Lehrer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY

[get the red out]

5. It will say what they proof-text it to say

As always, the Bible says whatever the Christopublicans tell everyone it says. To believe differently is to be an "unbeliever" and condemned. And un-American on top of it, like all those silly people who are against torture.

[xchrom]

6. ding! ding! ding! -- winner! nt

[get the red out]

4. I am sure it will be sinful

It can prevent unwanted pregnancy and prevent the spread if HIV. So it blocks two things the religious right loves as sources of misery. We must maintain all sources of misery so we will look to the Republicans/Christo-fascists (I see no separation between Republicans and the religious right, they are one and the same) for their esteemed guidance on the error of our ways.