Hope for HIV microbicide breakthrough: scientists - Yahoo! News: "Researchers are closing in on a breakthrough microbicide gel to help prevent HIV infection in women, scientists said on Monday, but a lack of funding by major pharmaceutical companies is hampering research.

'I think for many years the microbicides research field was a little bit tentative about making too much noise about the potential of this technology,' Helen Rees, executive director of South Africa's Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, said on the sidelines of an international conference in Cape Town."