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At the end of the study, there were 134 new HIV infections in the Carraguard group and 151 in the fake gel group, a rate of 3.3 infections per 100 women each year in the microbicide group and 3.7 for the placebo group.
''The results are comparable,'' with no statistically significant difference, said Khatija Ahmed, a microbiologist who headed the study's Setshaba Research Centre site near Pretoria.
However, women in the study used the gels only 44 percent of the time, and some used it hardly at all. Researchers are still analyzing the numbers to see what that means. If nonuse was far greater in the microbicide group than the placebo group, ''it could have had an impact on our final study results,'' said Barbara Friedland, the study's behavioral coordinator.
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hmm, I'd like to see what AKA_monet (and the other scientists) have to say about this, The amount of error is so high... I've been out of school too long and I can't really evaluate the results, I think i'd be way off.
I'm wondering if the use of the gel is actually comfortable, I mean does it burn, does it lubricate, etc... that might have something to do with how often it was used...
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