Gay Men: Let's Talk About Rectal Microbicides
What is a microbicide you might ask? In this context it's a foam, or a gel, or a liquid, that can be applied vaginally or rectally to assist in HIV prevention.
It's an exciting area of HIV prevention research. Condoms are essential to HIV prevention, but prevention can't be only about condoms. HIV vaccine research, HIV microbicide research, PREP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) research are all crucial. New studies also make it clear that circumcision can also reduce your risk for HIV.
Simply put, we need every possible tool at our disposal to prevent HIV. Watch this video to learn more about rectal microbicide research. To find out more about microbicide research in general, visit The Global Campaign for Microbicides. To find out more about rectal microbicide research, visit the International Rectal Microbicide Working Group.
It's an exciting area of HIV prevention research. Condoms are essential to HIV prevention, but prevention can't be only about condoms. HIV vaccine research, HIV microbicide research, PREP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) research are all crucial. New studies also make it clear that circumcision can also reduce your risk for HIV.
Simply put, we need every possible tool at our disposal to prevent HIV. Watch this video to learn more about rectal microbicide research. To find out more about microbicide research in general, visit The Global Campaign for Microbicides. To find out more about rectal microbicide research, visit the International Rectal Microbicide Working Group.
5 Comments:
The studies on circumcision only looked at heterosexual transmission of HIV from females to males.
Tony,
Not true. There is actually also research being done on rectal microbicides!
In fact, there is an international rectal microbicide working group that is a network of concerned activists from around the world who are advocating for more of a focus on rectal microbicide research.
They actually have a conference call tomorrow that you can participate in if you'd like to find out more.
You can find out more on their website:
http://www.irmwg.org/
Tony,
Not true. There is actually also research being done on rectal microbicides!
In fact, there is an international rectal microbicide working group that is a network of concerned activists from around the world who are advocating for more of a focus on rectal microbicide research.
They actually have a conference call tomorrow that you can participate in if you'd like to find out more.
You can find out more on their website:
http://www.irmwg.org/
oh wait ... my bad...
Since this is the rectal microbicide post - I was thinking rectal microbicides - not circumcision.
So with circumcision.
The Kenya and Uganda studies do look at transmission from females to males, but there is ANOTHER study that is looking at transmission from males to females.
You can get a list of all the circumcision studies at the AVAC Male Circumcision page at:
http://www.aidsvaccineclearinghouse.org/MC/index.html#trials_activity
Studying and studied are not the same. But even if the results from the study of male-to-female transmission was complete, that's not what you're discussing in this post. From the standpoint of gay men, male-to-male is all that matters, unless I'm missing something here.
As far as I'm aware, male circumcision isn't known to be a factor in preventing male-to-male transmission. It's possible to imagine it might, I guess, but that seems little more than speculation.
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