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IPM receives multi-year award from UK government to advance technologies for women's HIV

The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced today that it has received a £12 million (US$15.6 million) award over four years from the United Kingdom government through the Department for International Development to advance promising HIV and multipurpose prevention products that women could use to protect their sexual and reproductive health.

Published
20 July 2017
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Microbicides
Men often control use of women’s HIV prophylactic gel in Zambia

In Zambia, men often control the use of a microbicide gel that is meant to give women autonomy in preventing HIV infection, according to researchers. Use of the vaginal gel, which is now in phase 3 trials, is limited by social norms that entrench male dominance, they wrote in Global Public Health.

Published
17 July 2017
From
Healio
Microbicides
IPM's dapivirine vaginal ring now under review by European Medicines Agency

The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is pleased to announce that its application for the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring, designed to reduce the risk of HIV-1 infection via vaginal intercourse in HIV-negative women in combination with safer sex practices, has been validated and is now under review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Published
14 July 2017
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Microbicides
Women’s bacteria thwarted attempt at anti-HIV vaginal gel

Creating new HIV prevention tools for women has proven frustratingly slow and researchers have found another hurdle: bacteria in the reproductive tract.

Published
02 June 2017
From
STAT
Microbicides
IPM Advances Three-month HIV Prevention and Contraception Ring to Clinical Trial

The three-month vaginal ring is designed to slowly — and simultaneously — release the antiretroviral drug dapivirine to prevent HIV and the contraceptive hormone levonorgestrel. The primary goal of the study, known as MTN-030/IPM 041, is to assess the ring’s safety and pharmacokinetics (how the body processes the two drugs). Results of the trial, including the product’s acceptability to women and their willingness to use it in the future, will inform next steps for the ring’s formulation and future trial designs.

Published
03 May 2017
From
International Partnership for Microbicides
Microbicides
MTN begins first trial of new dapivirine ring with both anti-HIV drug and contraceptive

Researchers hoping for a single product to protect against both HIV and unintended pregnancy took an important step toward realizing their goal with the start of a trial of a vaginal ring containing the antiretroviral drug dapivirine and a hormonal contraceptive. A dapivirine-only ring that women use a month at a time was safe and helped prevent HIV in two large trials. The new ring adds levonorgestrel and could be used for three months.

Published
03 May 2017
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Microbicides
Vaginal Ring Form of PrEP Does Not Reduce Contraceptive Effectiveness

The antiretroviral (ARV)-containing vaginal ring form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) that reduced HIV risk in a major trial does not lower the effectiveness of hormonal birth control. This finding assuages concerns raised by previous research that the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) class of ARVs has been associated with a lowered effectiveness of some hormonal contraceptives.

Published
16 February 2017
From
Poz
Microbicides
IPM's dapivirine ring may offer significant HIV protection when used consistently

New data analyses announced at the AIDS 2016 conference today provide additional evidence suggesting that the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring developed by the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) provides significant protection against HIV infection in women when used consistently. The new data were released as two open-label studies of the ring begin and as IPM pursues regulatory approvals for the product for its use in developing countries.

Published
18 July 2016
From
International Partnership for Microbicides
New and experimental HIV treatments
Treatment Action Group: Pipeline Report 2016

Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines, Preventive Technologies, Research Toward a Cure, and Immune-Based and Gene Therapies in Development.

Published
15 July 2016
From
Treatment Action Group
Transmission and prevention
Five Exciting HIV Prevention Studies We’re Paying Attention To

What’s on the horizon of HIV prevention? Here are five clinical trials to pay attention to, if you’re interested in what the next big breakthrough in the HIV prevention field may be.

Published
30 June 2016
From
BETA blog
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