Columbia Labs Advantage-S Additional HIV Prevention Trials Unlikely
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
"It will be very difficult to conduct another study" on Advantage-S (nonoxynol-9) and HIV prevention after a Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS trial produced negative results, Columbia Labs Chairman and CEO William Bologna asserted during a June 12 conference call.
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