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U Scientists Discover Potential HIV Transmission Blocker

submitted by Max Sparber

Mar 4 2009 — 12:37pm

It’s a food additive called Glycerol Monolaurate and it’s already used in ice cream, so I’m good. More from MPR.

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7 Reader Comments

CINF Mar 4 2009
12:40 pm

So now we get to be all Nine and a Half Weeks with our one night stands.

John Girthsnake Mar 4 2009
2:22 pm

Can it be applied rectally?

DouglasG Mar 4 2009
3:09 pm

For the record, this has only been tested for female monkey sex. Those women monkeys get all the breaks!

tara_r Mar 4 2009
4:07 pm

CNIF, 9 1/2 Weeks wasn’t a one night stand, it was a 66 1/2 night stand. Duh.

MollyP Mar 4 2009
5:16 pm

Weird. I had a dream the other night that the “cure” was discovered in Jell-o. I am an AIDS psychic.

chuck Mar 4 2009
6:40 pm

The U made this cute little animated video to describe how it works. May contain monkey vaginas.

kc! Mar 5 2009
8:26 am

A couple weeks ago I read a story about a possible HIV/AIDS cure. There are apparently a group of people in Africa who do not get HIV. They found this due because some of the people in the group are prostitutes and have not contracted the disease, though they are in an area with a lot of the disease (sub saharan Africa.)

So, they guy in England (I think it was) has HIV AND cancer. Specfically, he had lukemia. Instead of looking for any old person to do his bone marrow transplant, they took it from someone from this previously mentioned group.

Since he got the transplant, he has not had any indications of HIV and his cancer was cured. This does not mean he doesn’t have HIV, those numbers (whatever they are) can be so low they are undectable, but it seems he may be cured.

Clearly lots of follow up and more studies need to be done, but I think this is even more promising.

And I’d do the research to find the link, but I can’t. I’m off to a 7 hour meeting. 4th one this week.