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After-sex vaginal gel could fight HIV infection, study shows

WASHINGTON: U.S researchers said Wednesday they have developed a new vaginal gel that might help protect women from HIV even it is applied three hours after sex.

Vaginal gels containing antiretroviral drugs are important for HIV prevention but are all designed to be applied by women before sex, which can interfere with sex practices and limit their use, the researchers wrote in their Science Translational Medicine paper.

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