Preventing HIV/AIDS by Using Liquid Silicone Rubber
HIV/AIDS.
True that it isn’t much talked about these days as cancer. But the World Health Organisation still bears data that shows about 34 million people around the globe in 2011 managed to breathe air carrying this disease and 1.7 million lost their lives. It is definitely one of the most fatal diseases that has engulfed humanity since it was first detected.
There could be some good news: a relatively recent tool that could help to fight back HIV/AIDS is known to be in the Stage III clinical testing being carried out by the US FDA. It constitutes an anti-viral drug that is mixed in a two-component liquid silicone rubber (LSR) that is injection molded into a vaginal ring that releases the drug.
A highly advanced combining process was customized for this drug. The machine, metering syst...
