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New strategy to combat HIV offers fresh hope

Covington center helps with research
Sunday, October 17, 2004
By Regina McEnery
Newhouse News Service
CLEVELAND -- An international team of researchers, including a researcher at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near Covington, has brought millions of vulnerable women closer to a potentially powerful weapon against HIV.

The experimental drug, a topical agent applied before sexual intercourse, has only been tested in animals. It is both expensive and complicated to produce on a mass scale. But the research team, led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, predicts a less expensive cousin one day can be developed.

Article from: The Times Picayne

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