New hope raised for OTC antiviral lubricants.
After the disastrous findings involving nonoxynol-9 and its use as an antiviral vaginal lubrication, clinicians may have been tempted to think there was very little possibility of finding a spermicide that could kill HIV. However, the possibility of finding a safe and effective antiviral lubricant was given new life by a recently published study by researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
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