Posted by Zebedee under blog's category : Policy Issues

Researchers have identified a cheap, commonly-used compound that, applied vaginally, can stop monkeys being infected with a monkey version of HIV, according to a study published in the science journal Nature today

 Prof Andrew McMichael, Director of Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, warns:

'The finding demonstrates how critically important studies in monkeys are to the understanding of HIV infection and development of strategies to prevent infection. Current proposals to restrict non-human primate research in the EU could prevent this type of work which could have outcomes of immense benefit to human health.'

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