Quote: (03-09-2013 02:29 PM)Ovid Wrote:
Why do they immediately say "vaginal gel?"
All they did was throw HIV and a sample of vaginal cells into a blender along with their modified bee venom to see what would happen. The HIV cells died and the vaginal cells lived.
"Vaginal gel" is merely the the least implausible, layman-friendly speculation that can be justified by the results. They haven't even shown this is safe for use in a real vagina, much less the anus or any other transmission vector.
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Or could it be that nobody really cares if men (or gay men) get HIV, and the only important thing is to make sure women can't get it, thus 'empowering' them to have even more lack of restraint in their sex lives?
More likely, their idea isn't to develop this for the US at all:
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“Our hope is that in places where HIV is running rampant, people could use this gel as a preventive measure to stop the initial infection,” says Joshua L. Hood, MD, PhD, a research instructor in medicine.
"Place where HIV is running rampant" is usually code for Africa.