24 August 2006
UK researchers have shown the antiviral drug lopinavir attacks the virus that causes cervical cancer - HPV - as well as HIV.
The team in Manchester envisage that the oral drug could be made into a simple cream or pessary to apply to the cervix.
This would mean thousands of women could avoid surgery to remove early cancers, they told Antiviral Therapy.
Cervical cancer vaccines are already being developed, but these will only be effective in people who have not already caught the HPV virus.
Each year in the UK alone about 50,000 women have early cervical cancers removed, the researchers say.
In the laboratory study, small doses of the liquid protease inhibitor selectively killed HPV-infected cervical cancer cells.
They plan clinical trials where a cream or a pessary would be used.
The original reprt can be found at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5282206.stm
Friday, 12 June 2009
Woman jailed for giving boyfriend HIV
20 June, 2006
The Guardian reported that an HIV-positive woman who infected her boyfriend has been jailed for 32 months. The 43-year old kept her condition secret while having regular unprotected sex with a 31-year-old man with whom she had a two-year relationship. He attempted suicide after being diagnosed as HIV-positive.
Inner London crown court heard that the HIV-positive woman was in denial about having the condition.
After the hearing, police said the women had refused to cooperate in tracking down her former sexual partners. Detective Sergeant Brian McClusky said: "We located four. One was infected, and the quality of his life has been severely curtailed. For the others, there was still heartbreak and stress for them and their partners as they waited for test results."
The story continues in the original article...
Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,1801584,00.html
The Guardian reported that an HIV-positive woman who infected her boyfriend has been jailed for 32 months. The 43-year old kept her condition secret while having regular unprotected sex with a 31-year-old man with whom she had a two-year relationship. He attempted suicide after being diagnosed as HIV-positive.
Inner London crown court heard that the HIV-positive woman was in denial about having the condition.
After the hearing, police said the women had refused to cooperate in tracking down her former sexual partners. Detective Sergeant Brian McClusky said: "We located four. One was infected, and the quality of his life has been severely curtailed. For the others, there was still heartbreak and stress for them and their partners as they waited for test results."
The story continues in the original article...
Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,1801584,00.html
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