Why do we need microbicides if we will eventually have an HIV-vaccine?
No one strategy or technology will “solve” the AIDS pandemic. We must employ all existing prevention strategies — such as behaviour change, voluntary counselling and testing, STI diagnosis and treatment, broad access to male and female condoms, access to sterile syringes, and anti-retroviral interventions — as well as expand our repertoire of tools and technologies. Microbicides will likely be available and accessible sooner than an HIV-vaccine. Even after a safe and effective vaccine is discovered, vaccines and microbicides will have different, complementary roles to play in an integrated, multi-faceted global HIV prevention strategy.
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- Why do we need microbicides if we will eventually have an HIV-vaccine?
