The preventive measures for HIV is strictly lifestyle based. However new study seems to offer a glimmer of hope for prevention against the disease. According to a University of Manitoba study, low dose Aspirin has shown the potential to prevent transmission.
A team which included which included researchers from the universities of Manitoba, Waterloo and Nairobi and the Public Health Agency of Canada, tested the effect of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA or Aspirin) and other anti-inflammatory drugs on HIV target cells in a group of Kenyan women who were at low risk for HIV.
HIV infection rates remain unacceptably high, especially among young African women.
The trial study, published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, based on existing knowledge about the role of inflammation…
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