msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) (02/05/85)
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5 February 1985.
According to Friday's (2/1) USA Today, Bruce Voeller,
a biologist and president of the Mariposa Foundation, announced
results of a four-year study which showed that nonoxynol-9 may
prove useful in preventing transmission of the AIDS virus.
This study was done in collaboration with the Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta. Voeller advocates that people use
over-the-counter spermicides that contain at least 5% nonoxynol-9
as sexual lubricants to lower their risk of contracting AIDS.
[ It sounds like a WONDERFUL idea. But I wonder what
Cheseborough-Ponds will have to say about this. -- mlrs ]
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Mike Simpson, BBN
msimpson@bbnccf (Arpanet/Internet/CSNet)
{decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,masscomp,sunybcs,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet)
617-497-2819 (Ma Bell)art@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/16/85)
> *** > 5 February 1985. > > According to Friday's (2/1) USA Today, Bruce Voeller, > a biologist and president of the Mariposa Foundation, announced > results of a four-year study which showed that nonoxynol-9 may > prove useful in preventing transmission of the AIDS virus. > This study was done in collaboration with the Centers for Disease > Control in Atlanta. Voeller advocates that people use > over-the-counter spermicides that contain at least 5% nonoxynol-9 > as sexual lubricants to lower their risk of contracting AIDS. > > [ It sounds like a WONDERFUL idea. But I wonder what > Cheseborough-Ponds will have to say about this. -- mlrs ] > -- > >> don't shoot me, I'm just trying to be helpful ... << > Mike Simpson, BBN > msimpson@bbnccf (Arpanet/Internet/CSNet) > {decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,masscomp,sunybcs,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet) > 617-497-2819 (Ma Bell) I I jI jusI just stumbled upon net.motss accidentally. I'd just like to say it wouldi t tt would be a shame if people were lulled into thinking they could have safe sex by using this lubricant. A more effective way would be to use condoms. The most effective way (short of mass celibacy) to stop the spread of AIDS is not to share body secretions. The nonoxynol-9 story is a prime example of the media's indiscriminate need to create news. It is an irrelevancy. The real news in AIDS research relates to the work now being done to document the natural history and patho- physiology of HTLV-III infection. Related to this is the ser search for drugs which inhibit viral replication. As someone who is involved directly in AIDS research, I have been alternat elely been ely bemused and angered by media coverage of AIDS. The media's one imperative is to sell itself, and no oversimplification or distortion is too blatant for them to peddle. Even at this late date, the general public's * REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***