New gel protects women from HIV

Thirty-three years since human-immuno virus (HIV) was discovered, the cure has proved elusive. The amount of resources spent in the search for the HIV/Aids treatment in those 33 years could probably outweigh the entire budget of Africa in the same period.  But these have been with varied results, with cases of patients being cured of the deadly virus. The latest in a series of research findings is that US researchers have developed a new vaginal gel that might help protect women from HIV even it is applied three hours after sex. The significant finding, last week, comes at almost the same time as other scientists proved that some woman-to-woman sex, hitherto believed to be safe from HIV transmission, has caused infections among some of the lesbian couples.