Posted on 03/04/2009 10:17:48 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cheap ingredient used in ice cream, cosmetics and found in breast milk helps protect monkeys against infection with a virus similar to AIDS and might work to protect women against the virus, researchers reported on Wednesday.
The compound, called glycerol monolaurate, or GML, appears to stop inflammation and helps keep away the cells the AIDS virus usually infects, the researchers said.
While it does not provide 100 percent protection, it might greatly reduce a woman's risk of being infected, and she could use it privately and without hurting her chances of pregnancy, the researchers reported in the journal Nature.
And it costs pennies a dose, Ashley Haase and Pat Schlievert of the University of Minnesota reported.
"For years, people have used the compound as an emulsifying agent in a variety of foods ... it is in breast milk," Schlievert told reporters in a telephone briefing.
GML is being considered as an additive to tampons because it interferes with bacteria, particularly those that can cause a potentially fatal infection called toxic shock syndrome.
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Chastity and monogamy work pretty well, too.
So start shipping ice cream and cosmetics to Africa and stop sending baby formula and expensive AIDS medicines. /sarc
well said, I was going to type the same thing.
Keep your legs closed and stay away from used needles to shoot your drugs.
How about leaving an ingredient out. Unprotected sex with multiple partners might be a good omission. Just saying.
Be true to your lover, and true to your needle...
Most problems have simple (not necessarily easy) solutions.
Some of these solutions would actually work...
Only if both partners practice it, especially the men.
Only do it with a lactating woman while eating ice cream?
Meanwhile Mark Morford buys the supermarket out of Ben & Jerry’s...
Common sense would have saved so many lives.
I can’t help but think. and I don’t want this thread pulled. So please nobody spin this into immature smut. But if promiscuous anal sex had never existed or been discouraged, would HIV have ever spread across in North America in the 1980s ? and reached the population in the level that it did ?
I KNOW it is not just a gay disease. and I feel terrible for women who get it from cheating husbands, ect. but I feel there was a tipping point somewhere in the mid-late 1980s where it could have been stopped.
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