A sex lubricant developed by an Australian company promises to block both HIV and the HSV-2 genital herpes virus, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported.

Tests on lab animals have shown Starpharma’s SPL7013 microbicide gel between 85 and 100 percent effective at deactivating both viruses, lead researcher Dr. Jeremy Paull of Melbourne-based Starpharma told last week’s International AIDS Society conference in Sydney.

Human clinical trials are now under way in Australia, Kenya and the United States. Early results of the second small-scale trial, presented at the Sydney congress, show it to be safe and well tolerated in healthy men, Paull said. (more…)

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