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Uganda: Doctor says trials on anti-HIV/AIDS treatment "promising".

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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

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Ongoing trials of two potential vaginal microbicides against HIV/AIDS at St Francis Hospital, Nsambya in Kampala have so far produced promising results.

Vaginal microbicides are substances that a woman can insert before sex in order to "inactivate" HIV and other sexually transmitted microbes.

The microbicides can work in one of three ways - by killing the virus before it enters the body; by preventing it from taking hold once inside the body; or by creating a barrier to stop it from entering the body in the first place.

The study is a collaboration between investigators at St…

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