RT Journal
A1 Stephenson J
T1 Hiv studies: Progress in microbicides, dead end for an immune-boosting strategy
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD April 8
VO 301
IS 14
SP 1421
OP 1422
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.468
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.468
AB 
In addition to these findings, presented at the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, other encouraging news on the prevention front came from studies in macaque monkeys that found that antiretroviral drugs, given by mouth or in a vaginal gel, offered some protection to the animals from infection with SHIV, a virus containing components of HIV and a related monkey virus that mimics HIV infection and causes serious illness in macaques.