An international consortium of private companies and charitable foundations to promote microbicide development. Provides links to campaign groups. Maintains a list of products under investigation, accessible here.

The Global Campaign for Microbicides and Prevention Options for Women is an advocacy group with an online petition available for individuals and groups to sign. It has recently established a European office hosted in the UK by International Family Health.

A global non-profit organisation dedicated to product development, which is to invest in private companies in return for guarantees on product access for developing countries.

A UN AIDS technical briefing reviewing current progress with the development of vaginal microbicides as a female-controlled prevention method.

POZ magazine reviews the possible use of microbicides as a prevention measure.

Nonoxynol-9, a widely used spermicide, was the first agent to be evaluated as a possible microbicide. This is the report of a meeting called by the World Health Organization to review the outcome of that research, which led to the abandonment of N-9 as a microbicide and warnings that it should not be used during anal sex or by people at high risk of HIV exposure.

The Population Council is developing a microbicide which is now in Phase III clinical trials. This gives a general introduction and links to more specific information.

The report of a US National Institutes of Health seminar on developing microbicides to prevent HIV transmission through anal sex, from the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).

The Rockefeller Foundation commissioned a series of reports which provide the basis on which it has set up the International Partnership for Microbicides (hosted by Family Health International).

Undated (1999?) review by Lori Heise of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, University of California San Francisco, of the case for microbicides. 32 pages in pdf format.