Development of a microbicide-releasing diaphragm as an HIV prevention strategy

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1089-1092

  Major, Ian ^a   Lowry, Deborah ^a   Malcolm, Karl ^a   Woolfson, David ^a   Cohen, Jessica ^b   LaBarre, Paul ^b   Kilbourne Brook, Maggie ^d   Saxon, Gene ^b   Friend, David ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b PATH   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRALS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING; HIV INFECTION; MICROBICIDES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SIDE EFFECT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

DIAPHRAGMS;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG IMPLANT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEMALE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, FEMALE; DRUG IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650827226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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